Google Project Management study guide
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The Google Project Management Certificate is a fully online, self-paced program from Grow with Google, delivered on Coursera, that prepares people with no prior experience or degree for entry-level project management roles such as project coordinator, project assistant, or program manager. It consists of six courses totaling roughly 240 hours of material covering time and budget estimation, stakeholder management and effective meetings, risk identification and management, Agile and Scrum frameworks, leadership and team dynamics, and using AI to boost productivity. The Google Project Management study guide has 6 sections and about 1,828 words.
01Foundations of Project Management
A project is a temporary effort with a defined start and end that produces a unique deliverable; operations are ongoing and repetitive. A program is a group of related projects managed together for shared benefits; a portfolio is the full collection of projects and programs aligned to organizational strategy.
312 words, about 2 min02Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project
Initiation produces the documents that authorize work: the business case (why the project exists - benefits, costs, risks, ROI, alignment to strategy), the project charter (who and what - authorizes the project and names the PM), and the stakeholder analysis . Charter contents: purpose, measurable objectives and success criteria, high-level requirements and scope, budget, schedule or key milestones, deliverables, high-level risks, key stakeholders, and approval requirements.
316 words, about 2 min03Project Planning: Putting It All Together
The project management plan bundles baselines and subsidiary plans: scope (with the WBS), schedule, cost, quality, resource, communication, risk, procurement, and stakeholder engagement. Baselines are approved; changing them requires formal change control.
295 words, about 1 min04Project Execution: Running the Project
Execution is tracking progress against the baseline while managing people, quality, communication, risk, and change. Quality assurance is process-focused and preventive: are we following the right process (audits, reviews, standards)?
289 words, about 1 min05Agile Project Management
The Agile Manifesto prioritizes individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change over the values on the right. Agile is iterative and incremental and suits evolving requirements; predictive (Waterfall) suits stable, well-understood scope.
296 words, about 1 min06Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World
The capstone hands you a scenario and expects a consistent set of artifacts, not a pile of templates. The test is coherence: charter objectives map to WBS deliverables, which map to scheduled milestones, which appear in status reports with RAG status.
320 words, about 2 min