Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Project Management Principles and Practices from Google and the University of California, Irvine

Project management principles and methods. Working better, together.

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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

  • project management
  • Risk management
  • budget

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Project Manager
  • Product Manager
  • Development Manager
  • Budget manager
  • Risk Manager
  • Resource Manager
  • Process Manager
  • Program Manager

Internship – 4-part course series

This specialization is a prerequisite for the Practical Project Management Certificate. Project management has been proven to be the most effective way to deliver products within budget, schedule, and resource constraints. This intensive, hands-on course series will give you the tools to ensure your projects are completed on time and within budget, while delivering the expected product to the user.

You will gain practical knowledge and a basic understanding of project management and be able to immediately apply this knowledge to manage projects effectively. By the end of the series, you will be able to:

  • Identify and manage product scope
  • Build a detailed work structure
  • Create a project plan
  • Prepare a project budget
  • Define and allocate resources
  • Manage project development
  • Identify and manage risks
  • and understand the project acquisition process

Projective practical learning

Participants will complete a series of projects and assignments that will identify and guide the scope of the product, build a detailed work structure, create a project plan, prepare a project budget, define and allocate resources, manage project development, identify and be able to manage risks, and understand the project acquisition process.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Project initiation and planning

  • Course 1
  • 7 hours
  • 4.7 (23,042 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Identify the project stakeholders
  • Defines the roles and responsibilities of the project manager
  • Summarize the key elements of the project plan
  • View common sources of conflict in the project environment
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Project Management
  • project management
  • Category: Project
  • project
  • Category: Planning
  • planning
  • Category: Project Planning
  • Project planning

Project budgeting and scheduling

  • Course 2
  • 6 hours
  • 4.7 (9,125 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Defines milestones and creates a milestone schedule
  • Identifies the project’s resource needs
  • Estimates the quantities and costs of resources needed for project activities
  • Uses a responsibility assignment matrix to assign roles
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Schedule
  • schedule
  • Category: Project Management
  • project management
  • Category: Budget
  • budget
  • Category: Budget Estimate
  • Budget estimation

Project and change risk management

  • Course 3
  • 5 hours
  • 4.7 (9,064 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Defines components of a communications management plan
  • Rate identified risks
  • Developing responses to high-priority risks
  • Identifying and analyzing changes in project scope
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Project Management
  • project management
  • Category: Change Control
  • Change control
  • Category: Risk Management
  • Risk management
  • Category: Change Management
  • Change management

Project Management Project

  • Course 4
  • 6 hours
  • 4.8 (3,101 ratings)

Course Details

What will you learn?
  • Write a mandate statement in narrative style
  • Arrange project activities
  • Build a project schedule
  • Create a budget for the project
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Schedule
  • schedule
  • Category: Project Management
  • project management
  • Category: Risk Management
  • Risk management
  • Category: Budget
  • budget