I recently completed the Google Professional Certificate in Project Management on Coursera. I have compliled some of my notes here to create a brief overview of what I have learned so that I can apply it to future projects.
Foundations of Project Management
What is a "project"?
What is "project management"?
Why use project management?
What does a project manager do?
What is the value of a project manager?
How do project managers impact organizations?
What are a project manager's key roles and responsibilties?
What is a project manager's role within a team?
What are the core skills of a project manager?
How does a project manager demonstrate leadership?
What are the phases of the project management "life cycle"?
What are some project management methodologies?
What are different types of organizational structures?
How does organizational structure impact project management?
What is the role of a Project Management Office (PMO)?
How does organizational culture impact project management?
What is a project manager's role in change management?
Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project
What are the key components of project initiation?
What are "SMART" goals?
What are "OKRs"?
How is a project's scope determined?
What is "scope creep" and how can it be avoided?
How can we manage project scope?
What is the difference between "launching" and "landing" a project?
How should we choose a project team?
What are the essential project roles?
What are the responsibilities of the project roles?
How can we conduct a stakeholder analysis?
What is a "RACI Chart" and how do I build one?
Why do projects fail?
What are some important project documents?
What should a project charter include?
What are some benefits of project management tools?
Project Planning: Putting It All Together
Tips for leading a successful kick-off meeting
Milestones vs tasks
Best practices for setting milestones
What is a "work breakdown structure (WBS)"?
What is a "critical path"?
Project plan templates
Project budgeting best practices
Project budget templates
What is the procurement process?
Risk vs Issue
Risk management helps us understand:
The phases of risk management
Tools for risk management
Types of risks
Risk mitigation strategies
Risk management template
Communication plan template
Project Execution: Running the Project
Items to track
Tools for project tracking
Key components of a project status report
Project status report template
Dependencies
ROAM analysis template
Quality managemet concepts
Retrospective template
Tuckman's Stages of Group Development
Cogner's four steps to persuade
Meeting agenda template
Project closeout report template
Agile Project Management
Agile Manifesto
VUCA
Scrum founding principles
Scrum pillars and values
Scrum Guide
Characteristics of a great Scrum team
Product backlog template
Product Roadmap First Principles
This is nothing
The influencer change framework
Applying Project Management in the Real World
Project charter template
Stakeholder analysis template
Project plan template
Closeout report template
Personal closing report