Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Introduction to Google Project Management Principles and Practices, Universidade de São Paulo

Fundamentals and best practices. Developing essential project management skills.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת במבוא לעקרונות ופרקטיקות ניהול פרויקטים של Google

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Identify and manage product scope
  • Define the structure of the project
  • Create a plan and budget for the project
  • Define resource allocation
  • Manage the development of the project
  • Identify and manage risks and changes

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Project Manager
  • Project Coordinator
  • Product Manager
  • Resource Manager
  • Risk Manager
  • Program Manager
  • Project Management Consultant
  • Team Manager
  • Logistics Manager
  • Operations Manager

Internship – 4-part course series

Project management is the most effective way to achieve results while meeting budgets, schedules, and available resources. This series of courses and practical activities provides the skills needed to get your projects done and deliver the expected results on schedule and within budget.

You will gain a deep understanding of project management that can be applied in your workplace. Upon completion of the integrated course program, you will be able to:

  • Identify and manage product scope
  • Define the structure of the project
  • Create a plan and budget for the project
  • Define resource allocation
  • Manage the development of the project
  • Identify and manage risks and changes

Applied Learning Project

Participants in the integrated course program will complete a variety of assignments and a practical project designed to allow you to utilize and put into practice all the knowledge you have acquired. To become a project manager, you must integrate your knowledge with terms and tools such as the Open Work Plan (EAP) and the Execution Plan, which is what the final project will provide.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Training and signing of projects

Course 1

Duration: 6 hours
Rating: 4.9 (905 ratings)

What you will learn:

  • Key features of a project
  • Main limitations of the project
  • Role and responsibilities of the project manager
  • Project organizational structures
  • Definition of a project stakeholder
  • Identifying stakeholders and their needs
  • Responsibility for managing and monitoring stakeholder engagement
  • Purpose of a project initiation document
  • Key components of a project plan
  • Common sources of conflict in a project environment
  • Difference between authority and influence

Course 2: Project Budgeting and Scheduling

Duration: 5 hours
Rating: 4.8 (329 ratings)

What you will learn:

  • Project resource needs
  • Breaking down work packages into activities
  • Estimating the duration of the activity
  • Setting milestones and a schedule
  • Determining the critical path and calculating flexibility
  • Target of openness and schedule delays
  • Estimation of quantities and costs of resources
  • Choosing cost estimation techniques
  • Using the Blame Matrix to Assign Responsibility
  • Components of a project quality management plan

Course 3: Managing Risks and Changes in Projects

Duration: 5 hours
Rating: 4.9 (278 ratings)

What you will learn:

  • Components of a communications management plan
  • Importance of communication channels
  • Measuring and reporting on scope, schedule, and cost performance
  • Identifying risk events in the project
  • Prioritize identified risks
  • Developing high-priority risk responses
  • Identifying and analyzing changes in project scope
  • Causes and effects of project changes
  • Purpose of holding a lessons learned meeting

Course 4: Applied Project – Introduction to Project Management

Duration: 4 hours
Rating: 4.7 (81 ratings)

What you will learn:

  • Writing a narrative statement
  • Creating a work breakdown structure
  • Arranging project activities
  • Building a project schedule
  • Creating a project budget
  • Building a Responsibility Matrix
  • Identifying risks and defining risk responses

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