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Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World

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Apply project management knowledge and skills in real-world scenarios. Develop a portfolio of project management artifacts demonstrating your ability to manage stakeholders and teams, organize plans, and communicate project details. This capstone course provides hands-on activities simulating common project management tasks, guided by Google employees. This is the sixth course in the Google Project Management Certificate, a series designed to prepare you for an entry-level project management role.

Syllabus

  • Initiating a project
    • Introduction to Course 6
    • Course 6 Capstone overview
    • Project management artifacts
    • Project charters: Purpose and components
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Draft a project charter
    • Project charters: Stakeholder alignment
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Revise your project charter
    • Project charters: Drafting SMART goals
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Update your project charter goals
    • Project charters: Defining scope, benefits, and costs
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Project charter components
    • Afsheen: Initiating a project effectively
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Complete your project charter
    • Activity Exemplar: Complete your project charter
    • Completing a stakeholder analysis
    • Stakeholder management: Tips and takeaways
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Complete a stakeholder analysis
    • Finding mutually beneficial solutions
    • Negotiating scope with stakeholders
    • Achieving a win-win outcome
    • Stanton: Managing scope changes with stakeholders
    • Applying influence in negotiations
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 1 Challenge
  • Building out a project plan
    • Introduction: Building out a project plan
    • Identifying project tasks: Analyzing documentation
    • Tips for defining project tasks
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Analyzing a project charter
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Identify project tasks: Analyze project documents
    • Identifying project tasks: Conducting online research
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Identify project tasks: Conduct online research
    • Identifying project tasks: Analyzing key conversations
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Identifying tasks
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Identify project tasks from key conversations
    • Ordering tasks and identifying milestones
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Order tasks and milestones
    • Activity Exemplar: Order tasks and milestones
    • Time estimation: Asking the right questions
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Time estimation
    • Time estimation: Three-point estimating
    • The three-point estimating technique
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Identify time estimates for your project plan
    • Time estimation: Applying confidence level ratings
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Add confidence ratings
    • Time estimation: Effective time estimate negotiation
    • Time estimation: Negotiating with empathy
    • Torie: Practicing empathy as a program manager
    • Graded Quiz: Module 2 Challenge
    • Wrap-up
  • Maintaining quality
    • Introduction: Maintaining quality
    • Key quality management concepts
    • Defining quality standards
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Add quality standards to your project plan
    • Creating evaluation questions
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Evaluation questions
    • Determining evaluation indicators
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Create evaluation questions and indicators
    • Developing a survey
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Survey development
    • Delivering an evaluation presentation
    • Evaluation presentations: Components and tips
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Evaluation findings
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Present evaluation findings
    • Activity Exemplar: Present evaluation findings
    • The value of retrospectives
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Complete a retrospective document
    • Retrospectives: Encouraging participation
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Encouraging participation
    • Retrospectives: Encouraging accountability
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Encouraging accountability
    • Retrospectives: Addressing negativity
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Addressing negativity
    • Dana: Leading positive retrospectives
    • Graded Quiz: Module 3 challenge
    • Wrap-up
  • Effective stakeholder communication
    • Introduction: Effective stakeholder communication
    • Communicating project problems
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Summarizing project problems
    • Chris: The art of problem-solving
    • Connecting project problems to goals
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Connecting problems to goals
    • Writing emails to escalate a problem
    • Laura: Stakeholder communication best practices
    • Completing a closeout report
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Complete the project closeout report
    • Project impact report
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Impact report
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Draft an executive summary
    • Activity Exemplar: Draft an executive summary
    • Wrap-up
    • Personal closing report
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Complete a personal closing report
    • Course 6 glossary
    • Congratulations: Next steps
    • Graded Quiz: Module 4 Challenge
    • Introduction to AI for Project Management
    • Ben: Driving impact with AI in the workplace
    • Use generative AI to work smarter and faster
    • Boost your project management skills with AI
    • Use AI to create a project charter
    • Identify potential project risks with gen AI
    • Use AI to improve project communications
    • Execute your meetings more efficiently with AI
    • Plan sprint retrospectives using AI
    • Practice Quiz: Use AI to write a project status update
    • Key takeaways from AI for Project Management
    • Introducing Google AI Essentials
    • Take the next step with Google AI Essentials
    • Congratulations from your instructors
    • Showcase your work
    • Claim your Google Project Management Certificate badge
    • Project Management at Google: Tips to take with you
    • Exploring Professional Opportunities
    • Resources for Google Project Management Certificate graduates
    • Course 6 resources and citations

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