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Free online courseProject Management

Duration of the online course: 15 hours and 41 minutes

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Build job-ready project management skills with a free online course—learn planning, stakeholders, risk and communication to lead projects confidently.

In this free course, learn about

  • Primary objective of project management: deliver value by meeting scope, time, cost, and quality goals
  • Core PM skills: leadership, communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management
  • Project lifecycle fundamentals, especially initiating: defining purpose, feasibility, and high-level needs
  • Organizational structures (classic vs matrix) and how they affect PM authority and ways of working
  • How company culture influences teamwork, communication norms, and project execution
  • Running effective meetings: clear agenda, right attendees, outcomes, and action items
  • Using key project documents (plans, trackers) to align teams, monitor progress, and manage changes
  • Stakeholder and resource planning: identifying roles, availability, skills needs, and constraints
  • RACI charts: why a single accountable owner per task prevents confusion and decision bottlenecks
  • SMART goals and defining project goals to guide scope, priorities, and success criteria
  • Initiation resources: typical focus on people, budget/money, and time/schedule (and what isn’t primary)
  • Risk management basics: distinguishing risks (potential) from issues (current) and planning responses
  • Project planning essentials: milestones, buffers, communication plans, and the five elements of a project plan
  • Budgeting, data-informed decisions, quality improvement, retrospectives, and closing criteria to finish projects

Course Description

Strong project management turns ideas into results. In this free online course, you will learn how to guide a project from the first conversation to a confident close, using the same practical approaches used in modern business environments. Whether you are stepping into a project role for the first time or want a clearer framework for delivering work on time and with fewer surprises, this course helps you build habits that teams trust.

You will explore what project management is really for: creating value by organizing people, time, and resources around a specific goal. Along the way, you will develop the professional skills that make projects run smoothly—setting expectations, leading meetings that matter, writing and using project documents, and communicating in a way that keeps stakeholders aligned instead of confused. You will also learn how organizational structure and company culture affect authority, decision-making, and collaboration, so you can adapt your approach across different workplaces.

A major focus is planning with intention. You will practice translating goals into clear outcomes, shaping scope, identifying resources, and choosing tools that help you track progress without overcomplicating the work. You will learn to separate risks from issues, use milestones effectively, and build schedules with realistic buffers to protect delivery. You will also work with budgeting fundamentals so that costs support the plan instead of becoming a last-minute obstacle.

Beyond the mechanics, the course emphasizes leadership in action: facilitating productive discussions, clarifying roles and accountability, and supporting team performance with an improvement mindset. You will see how data can be used to make decisions and tell a clear story, and why quality management and retrospectives help projects get better each cycle. Finally, you will learn what it means to close a project responsibly, capturing outcomes and setting your team up for future success.

By the end, you will have a practical, end-to-end understanding of how projects are initiated, planned, supported, and completed in real organizations—skills you can apply immediately to your current role or use to move toward project management opportunities.

Course content

  • Video class: Intro to Project Management | Google Project Management Certificate

    07m

  • Exercise: What is the primary objective of project management as described in the introduction of Google's Project Management Certificate Program?

  • Video class: Professional Project Management Skills | Google Project Management Certificate

    21m

  • Exercise: What is a primary way a project manager adds value to a team?

  • Video class: Project Structures

    34m

  • Exercise: What is the primary purpose of initiating a project in the project lifecycle?

  • Video class: Finding Project Manager Jobs | Google Project Management Certificate

    06m

  • Exercise: What is the projected demand for project management aligned roles by 2027?

  • Video class: How Company Culture Affects Project Management | Google Project Management Certificate

    27m

  • Exercise: _What is an organizational structure and why is it important to understand it as a project manager?

  • Exercise: What is the main difference between a classic and a matrix organizational structure regarding project management authority?

  • Video class: How to Run a Successful Meeting | Google Career Certificates

    07m

  • Exercise: What is one key characteristic of effective team meetings?

  • Video class: Communicate Effectively as a Project Manager | Google Career Certificates

    08m

  • Exercise: As a project manager, what is one of the key responsibilities when it comes to using project documents like plans and trackers?

  • Video class: Key Parts of Project Initiation | Google Project Management Certificate

    10m

  • Exercise: What is the main purpose of the project initiation phase in project management?

  • Video class: Communicating and Working with Stakeholders | Google Project Management Certificate

    23m

  • Exercise: _What should a project manager consider when identifying people resources for a project team?

  • Exercise: Why is it important to have just one person designated as 'accountable' in a RACI chart?

  • Video class: How to Set SMART Goals and Get Results | Google Project Management Certificate

    42m

  • Exercise: _What is a project goal?

  • Video class: The Best Resources and Tools to Manage Your Project | Google Project Management Certificate

    29m

  • Exercise: _What are the three resources that project managers typically work with during the initiation phase?

  • Exercise: Which is NOT typically considered a primary resource that project managers need to organize during the initiation phase?

  • Video class: Risk Management Basics | Google Project Management Certificate

    29m

  • Exercise: _What is the difference between a risk and an issue in project management?

  • Video class: The Benefits of Project Planning | Google Project Management Certificate

    35m

  • Exercise: What is the purpose of a milestone in project management?

  • Video class: Create a Project Communication Plan | Google Project Management Certificate

    35m

  • Exercise: _What happened during the surprise party planning breakdown?

  • Video class: Project Planning for Beginners | Google Project Management Certificate

    36m

  • Exercise: _What are the five basic elements that go into a project plan?

  • Exercise: What is the primary purpose of adding a buffer in project scheduling?

  • Video class: How to Create a Project Budget | Google Project Management Certificate

    49m

  • Exercise: _What is a project budget?

  • Video class: Leadership vs Management In a Successful Team | Google Project Management Certificate

    39m

  • Exercise: What are the top five factors identified by Google's researchers that have an impact on team effectiveness?

  • Video class: Storytelling with Data to Make Decisions | Google Project Management Certificate

    34m

  • Exercise: _What is the definition of data, and how can it be used in decision-making?

  • Video class: Quality Management and Continuous Improvement | Google Project Management Certificate

    45m

  • Exercise: What is the primary purpose of conducting project retrospectives?

  • Video class: How and When to Close a Project | Google Project Management Certificate

    19m

  • Exercise: _What are the three criteria that make up a project closing?

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15 hours and 41 minutes of online video course

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