At under 10 hours per week, you can complete in less than six months. Learn from Google employees whose foundations in project management served as launchpads for their own careers. Over 6 courses, gain in-demand skills that will prepare you for an entry-level job. They set the plan and guide teammates, and manage changes, risks, and stakeholders. Project managers are natural problem-solvers. job openings in project management with a $59,000 average entry-level salary.¹ Get professional training designed by Google and get on the fastrack to a competitively paid job. Prepare for a new career in the high-growth field of project management, no experience or degree required. Explain why a project plan is necessary and what components it contains. Draft a communication plan and explain how to manage it. Explain the procurement process and identify key procurement documentation. Describe how to estimate, track, and maintain a budget. Identify tools and best practices to build a project plan and risk management plan.

Make accurate time estimates and describe techniques for acquiring them from team members. Explain why milestones are important and how to set them.

Describe the components of the project planning phase and their significance.

No previous experience is necessary.īy the end of this course, you will be able to: Learners who complete this program should be equipped to apply for introductory-level jobs as project managers. 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. Finally, you will explore how to draft and manage a communication plan and how to organize project documentation. 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. Next, you will learn how to build and manage a budget and how the procurement processes work. You will examine the key components of a project plan, how to make accurate time estimates, and how to set milestones. This course will explore how to map out a project in the second phase of the project life cycle: the project planning phase. This is the third course in the Google Project Management Certificate program.

Google project planning tools