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Plan and manage projects with confidence by learning to make accurate time estimates, set milestones, and build effective budgets. Discover how to identify and manage project risks and draft comprehensive communication plans. This is the third course in the Google Project Management Certificate, a series designed to prepare you for an introductory-level project manager role.

Syllabus

  • Beginning the planning phase
    • Introduction to Course 3
    • Course 3 overview
    • The benefits of project planning
    • Launching the planning phase
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Project planning considerations
    • Facilitating a project kick-off meeting
    • Tips for leading a successful kick-off meeting
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: The planning phase components
    • Understanding tasks and milestones
    • The importance of setting milestones
    • How to set milestones
    • Setting milestones: Best practices
    • Creating a work breakdown structure
    • Breaking down the work breakdown structure
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Use a WBS to create milestones and project tasks - Part 1
    • Activity Exemplar: Use a WBS to create project tasks and milestones - Part 1
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Use a WBS to create milestones and project tasks - Part 2
    • Activity Exemplar: Use a WBS to create project tasks and milestones - Part 2
    • Wrap-up
    • Clennita: How planning creates a sense of team
    • Graded Quiz: Module 1 Challenge
  • Building a project plan
    • Introduction: Building a project plan
    • Components of a project plan
    • Putting together the pieces of a project plan
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Getting started with a project plan
    • Making realistic time estimates
    • Case study: Run fast, pay later
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Time estimation
    • Overcoming the planning fallacy
    • Capacity planning and the critical path
    • Creating a critical path
    • Getting accurate time estimates from your team
    • Angel: The value of interpersonal skills in time estimation
    • Developing a project schedule
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Estimate a project plan in a Gantt chart
    • Activity Exemplar: Estimate a project plan in a Gantt chart
    • Project plan best practices
    • Creating a project plan: Tools and templates
    • Introduction to Kanban boards
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Utilizing tools to build a project plan
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 2 Challenge
  • Managing budgeting and procurement
    • Introduction: Managing budgeting and procurement
    • The importance of budget setting
    • Key components of a project budget
    • Project budgeting 101
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Understanding project budgets
    • Creating a project budget
    • Helpful budget templates
    • Maintaining a project budget
    • Overcoming budgeting challenges
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Develop a project budget
    • Activity Exemplar: Develop a project budget
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Creating a project budget
    • Introduction to budgeting terms
    • Understanding procurement
    • The procurement process
    • Tips for the procurement process
    • Common procurement documentation
    • Creating a Statement of Work
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Introduction to procurement
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Complete a Statement of Work (SoW)
    • Activity Exemplar: Complete a Statement of Work (SoW)
    • Obtaining procurement support
    • Ethics in the procurement process
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Navigating procurement challenges
    • Avoiding ethical traps in procurement
    • Practice Quiz: Reflection: Procurement ethics
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 3 Challenge
  • Managing risks effectively
    • Introduction: Managing risks effectively
    • The importance of risk management
    • Stanton: Managing my first project
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Risk management
    • Phases of risk management
    • Uncover opportunities using risk management
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Risk scenarios
    • Tools to help identify risks
    • How to create a fishbone diagram
    • Types of risk
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Measuring risk impact
    • Managing single point of failure risks
    • Visualizing dependency relationships
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Identifying and assessing risks
    • Risk mitigation strategies
    • Building a risk management plan
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Mitigating and communicating risks
    • Communicating risks to stakeholders
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Create a risk management plan
    • Activity Exemplar: Create a risk management plan
    • Aji: Risk management at Google
    • Wrap-up
    • Graded Quiz: Module 4 Challenge
  • Organizing communication and documentation
    • Introduction: Organizing communication and documentation
    • Why communication is critical
    • Tips for effective communication
    • Starting a communication plan
    • Developing a communication plan
    • Best practices for building a communication plan
    • Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Effective communication
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Draft a communication plan
    • Activity Exemplar: Draft a communication plan
    • The value of project documentation
    • Organizing project documentation
    • Practice Quiz: Activity: Organize documents in a project plan
    • Activity Exemplar: Organize documents in a project plan
    • Chris: Organizing artifacts for a job interview
    • Dan: The importance of project documentation
    • Graded Quiz: Module 5 Challenge
    • Course 3 glossary
    • Course wrap-up
    • Getting started on Course 4
    • Course 3 resources and citations

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