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I recently completed the Project Planning: Putting it all together course certification offered by Google on Coursera, and I must say that I am quite impressed with the overall quality of the course. The course is well-structured and covers all the key concepts of project planning, such as identifying project goals, developing project plans, and executing those plans effectively.

The course is delivered through a series of videos, readings, and quizzes, which are all very informative and easy to understand. The videos are of high quality and the instructors are very knowledgeable and engaging. The course also includes a number of hands-on exercises, which are designed to help you apply the concepts learned in the course to real-world scenarios.One of the things I appreciated most about the course was the emphasis on practicality.

The course does an excellent job of providing you with the tools and techniques you need to plan and execute projects effectively, regardless of the industry you work in. The course also emphasizes the importance of teamwork and communication, which are critical skills for any project manager.

Overall, I highly recommend the Project Planning: Putting it all together course certification offered by Google on Coursera.

Maybe this is not a problem of the course itself, but the technologies available today: to explain the reason why I put 4 stars and not 5, I make an example. We were teached, and I agree, that information should be distributed and exchanged very carefully, each actor should receive and manage only information relevant to him, but then the tools presented or mentioned to manage communication and store documentation do not allow natively this need, so e.g. if I need to have a documentation repository on the cloud with 6 types of access, it is virtually impossible for me to manage this natively, I will probably need to have 6 different google drive accesses (and this could be difficult to manage, as currently on each pc only 4 google drive users can be activated, so the project manager really could have many technical difficulties in managing all the repositories. Other similar situations exist, due to limitations of technologies, e.g. in ASANA the process of monitoring work progress with objective indicators is manual and so not so easy to perform.

I think some of the documents and tools could be better learned if they were all constructed during the videos, just like what they did with the project plan. Many documents were taught only on documents and left margin for many information that were not detailed. For example, the "Decision Tree" was not shown or shared as a document. I also keep my constructive critic about having a final PDF document listing all the tools and templates in one place like a textbook to be used as future reference and help to study and consult. Maybe the parts of building a CV, professional profile, OKR´s and such, could be better places in the end of the whole certification instead of bits and pieces in each and every course. Great educational course, even though it can be improved.

Overall the course was OK and gave many ideas on how to structure practices and keep ideas and processes organized.

There are some challenges with the peer-graded assignment system. Although it can be fun when you are reviewing/being reviewed by a participant who is very engaged with the course, on the other hand it can be frustrating when your work is failed because of the other party not grading according to the objective grading criteria prepared and according to a misunderstanding or incorrect completion of the assignment on their part.

On top of this, the grading system takes time. It is even lengthier if you encounter incorrect reviews and have to resubmit your work to be re-reviewed as your waiting time then multiplies.

My feedback for this module is, I think Communication plan (Week 5) could have been made a little more interesting, because I found it a bit dry and purely theoretical. But nevertheless, I enjoyed the "Project planning" module. Risk management was my favorite of all the topics and I enjoyed working on the activity. After Risk management, I would say I enjoyed learning about Scheduling and Budget management.

Another feedback I have for Coursera is a technical one. When I watch my videos full-screen and hit on the space key, not all the videos seem to pause/play. It would be easy for us as learners to have the option to pause or play the video using space key, instead of hovering the mouse to pause/play.

Love Love the expand interactive prompts that allows you to apply what you've just learned through matching, fill in the blank, and creating a fishbone diagram. I think they should all be action prompts compared to the ones that you just click through with more description.

The tests are wonderful. Especially if you get something wrong, it leads you to where you can find the correct information and go back and re-read.

I'm not a fan of the assignments that needed to be graded by others, due to the wait. But the exercise does give us an opportunity to actually create a document versus just reading about it or looking at examples.

This class was the most challenging so far. It was a lot of information to take in but there was also information that wasn't needed. For example, there is a whole section in Week 5 of the course that is optional and isn't needed unless you aren't up to date on your resume or profesional profile. There were also a lot of quizzes in the course which could be seen as testing for understanding but they got to be more of busy work. Overall, it did great to fill llmy portfolio with the documents that we created. I loved that aspect of the course (the hands-on nature). I like that I brought tangible things out of a course.

This is an excellent course, even for seasoned PM's as it provides (a) deep reasoning of why we learned things in the past [i.e., cause and effect have strong connections in this course], and (b) the building blocks to formulate strong frameworks - such as proper communication plans and contents - with all the interweaving of fabric for success.

If you want to succeed in the interconnectedness of program, project, technical, and Google methods. then this course is ready for you, and I highly recommend it.

Christian Lira

This course was very comprehensive and well taught, but two comments: if you are not familiar with the Google platform and using Google templates, ex: Google docs, Google forms, etc. completing some of the assignments and activities can be challenging. I am much more familiar with the Microsoft platform so using the Google templates was a bit challenging, especially the communication plan assignment. Also, if you don't have two monitors or screens completing the assignments and activities is also challenging.

I throughly appreciate this course. I learned several things that will undoubtedly help me in my Program Manager role. I would like to have viewed several of the methodolgies in action while learning about them. All in all , this course is very beneficial. The skills learned here are not only beneficial in a business setting but in organizing daily decisions, goals and routines. Gaining these skills then going onto any other profession is a smart value. Thank you Coursera!

This course is well done and I learned a lot! I have only a two negative points to comment, which are the extension of the course (it could be a bit shorter), and about the questions of last test of the 5th week, I found it a little discrepant with the course last week content. All in all, I congratulate the Google employees for effort and the beautiful job they made for us to learn. I appreciate the opportunitie and look forward to begin the 4th course. Thank you!

The last week on communication could have used more structure to it instead of the who what where apporach the\at kept changing up. You also might want to check some of your questions on the course as they have issues on how you phrase the answers or questions. An example was elements needed to "create" a communication plan but one of the answers was " reviewing it frequently" (not and exact quote) That to me would not be something you do in a "creation" phase.

Based on some statements made throughout the course it seems as if it is believed that persons take this course do so because they are looking to apply for a Project Management job or that they are already in a project management position and that is not the case all of the time. For example, I am taking the courses simply because I want to expand my knowledge...not because I am interested in searching for a project management position.

Seems like the last week of this course fell off and didn't have enough training material to stay on track for the planning phases. when it got into resume training and linkedin topics I started to question how much I was learning from this course. That type of information seemed out of place and should be closer to the end of the training course. Overall it was still good just seemed to lack a strong finish.

This is course no. 3 in the 6-course Google Project Management: Professional Certificate. Project Planning is a very well-put-together course with excellent production quality. It covers the planning phase components, defining tasks and milestones, project timelines and budgets, risk management, communication, etc. I spent a bit more time on this trying to digest the information. All-in-all time well spent.

Love the hands-on exercises. Would love it more if the course talks and teaches about building a portfolio of the exercises from the very beginning. I began building my library. But effectively organizing them to reflect the learning objectives of the courses is difficult. Maybe the Project Plan chart we just used can be the first thing. That way, we know to add to it each time we complete an exercise.

i am understan from this course mainy things like risk managment,project planing,effective communication and Best practices for building a communication plan so i learn and important expriance inside lead the projects.for instance in the launching the project and end of the project i understand how to communicate with the stackhoolders and clients and how to minimaise the risk in side the project team.

I learned a lot in this course and it was generally well-taught and well put together. However, this particular instructor wasn't my favorite, and I found most of the peer-reviewed assignments to be tedious and overly complex. I also thought that the last 2 modules were too long and repetitive and could have been covered with much less time/materials.

Week 5 was a little challenging as I felt the activity wasn't very clear when it came to directions. I am working from a Mac and a lot of the information provided didn't align with how a Mac works. Instead of using confusing terminology like "Source Sheet" just say "The Budget sheet". Other than that, I have no other issues. It's a great course!

Content was great, and very informative. Beware, though; some of your peer-reviewed projects will be marked down needlessly by unnecessarily competitive peers. Additionally, some of the test answers are beginning to only line up tangentially with the course material, and instead feel more like "guess what I'm thinking" questions.