Course Summary
This course is designed to teach students how to plan, execute, and manage successful projects using Google tools. Students will learn how to create a project plan, track progress, and communicate with stakeholders.Key Learning Points
- Learn project planning techniques using Google tools
- Create a project plan and track progress
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders
Related Topics for further study
Learning Outcomes
- Create a detailed project plan
- Effectively track project progress
- Communicate with stakeholders using Google tools
Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course
- Basic knowledge of Google tools
- Familiarity with project management concepts
Course Difficulty Level
IntermediateCourse Format
- Self-paced
- Online
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Related Education Paths
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- David Allen
- Tim Ferriss
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Description
This is the third course in the Google Project Management Certificate program. This course will explore how to map out a project in the second phase of the project life cycle: the project planning phase. You will examine the key components of a project plan, how to make accurate time estimates, and how to set milestones. Next, you will learn how to build and manage a budget and how the procurement processes work. Then, you will discover tools that can help you identify and manage different types of risk and how to use a risk management plan to communicate and resolve risks. Finally, you will explore how to draft and manage a communication plan and how to organize project documentation. Current Google project managers will continue to instruct and provide you with hands-on approaches for accomplishing these tasks while showing you the best project management tools and resources for the job at hand.
Knowledge
- Describe the components of the project planning phase and their significance.
- Identify tools and best practices to build a project plan and risk management plan.
- Describe how to estimate, track, and maintain a budget.
- Draft a communication plan and explain how to manage it.
Outline
- Beginning the planning phase
- Introduction to Course 3
- The benefits of project planning
- Launching the planning phase
- Facilitating a project kick-off meeting
- Understanding tasks and milestones
- The importance of setting milestones
- How to set milestones
- Creating a work breakdown structure
- Wrap-up
- Clennita: How planning creates a sense of team
- Course 3 overview
- Helpful resources to get started
- Tips for leading a successful kick-off meeting
- Setting milestones: Best practices
- Breaking down the work breakdown structure
- Activity Exemplar: Use a WBS to create project tasks and milestones - Part 1
- Activity Exemplar: Use a WBS to create project tasks and milestones - Part 2
- Reflection: Project planning considerations
- Test your knowledge: The planning phase components
- Activity: Use a WBS to create milestones and project tasks - Part 1
- Activity: Use a WBS to create milestones and project tasks - Part 2
- Weekly Challenge 1
- Building a project plan
- Introduction: Building a project plan
- Components of a project plan
- Making realistic time estimates
- Capacity planning and the critical path
- Getting accurate time estimates from your team
- Angel: The value of interpersonal skills in time estimation
- Developing a project schedule
- Project plan best practices
- Wrap-up
- Putting together the pieces of a project plan
- Case study: Run fast, pay later
- Overcoming the planning fallacy
- Creating a critical path
- Creating a project plan: Tools and templates
- Introduction to Kanban boards
- Test your knowledge: Getting started with a project plan
- Reflection: Time estimation
- Test your knowledge: Utilizing tools to build a project plan
- Weekly Challenge 2
- Managing budgeting and procurement
- Introduction: Managing budgeting and procurement
- The importance of budget setting
- Key components of a project budget
- Creating a project budget
- Maintaining a project budget
- Understanding procurement
- The procurement process
- Common procurement documentation
- Creating a Statement of Work
- Obtaining procurement support
- Ethics in the procurement process
- Wrap-up
- Project budgeting 101
- Helpful budget templates
- Overcoming budgeting challenges
- Activity Exemplar: Develop a project budget
- Optional: Introduction to budgeting terms
- Tips for the procurement process
- Activity Exemplar: Complete a Statement of Work (SoW)
- Avoiding ethical traps in procurement
- Test your knowledge: Understanding project budgets
- Activity: Develop a project budget
- Test your knowledge: Creating a project budget
- Test your knowledge: Introduction to procurement
- Activity: Complete a Statement of Work (SoW)
- Test your knowledge: Navigating procurement challenges
- Reflection: Procurement ethics
- Weekly Challenge 3
- Managing risks effectively
- Introduction: Managing risks effectively
- The importance of risk management
- Stanton: Managing my first project
- Tools to help identify risks
- Types of risk
- Risk mitigation strategies
- Building a risk management plan
- Communicating risks to stakeholders
- Aji: Risk management at Google
- Wrap-up
- Phases of risk management
- Uncover opportunities using risk management
- How to create a fishbone diagram
- Managing single point of failure risks
- Visualizing dependency relationships
- Test your knowledge: Risk management
- Test your knowledge: Risk scenarios
- Test your knowledge: Measuring risk impact
- Test your knowledge: Identifying and assessing risks
- Test your knowledge: Mitigating and communicating risks
- Weekly Challenge 4
- Organizing communication and documentation
- Introduction: Organizing communication and documentation
- Why communication is critical
- Starting a communication plan
- Developing a communication plan
- The value of project documentation
- Organizing project documentation
- Chris: Organizing artifacts for a job interview
- Documenting experience in a resume
- Dan: The importance of project documentation
- Course wrap-up
- Tips for effective communication
- Best practices for building a communication plan
- Activity Exemplar: Draft a communication plan
- Activity Exemplar: Organize documents in a project plan
- Tailoring a resume for project management
- Activity Exemplar: Get started on your project management resume
- Activity Exemplar: Create or update your professional social media profile
- OKRs for personal and professional development
- Course 3 glossary
- Getting started on Course 4
- Test your knowledge: Effective communication
- Activity: Draft a communication plan
- Activity: Organize documents in a project plan
- Activity: Get started on your project management resume
- Activity: Create or update your professional social media profile
- Weekly Challenge 5
Summary of User Reviews
Learn project planning with Google in this online course on Coursera. Users have given this course positive reviews, highlighting its practicality and usefulness. Many found the course materials and assessments to be excellent.Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course
Practicality and usefulnessPros from User Reviews
- Excellent course materials
- Great assessments
- Practical and applicable knowledge
Cons from User Reviews
- Lack of interaction with instructors
- Some technical issues with the platform
- Lack of depth in some areas
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