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Introduction to Project Management

This course is designed to give you the fundamentals of Project Management. You will learn the basic principles of Project Management by managing a fundraising event for your local farmers market. You will designate responsible team members to help you, build a timeline and see the different ways that you can manage the project. Together, we will walk through not only the documentation, but also the theories and reasoning behind each task. You will learn how to look at a large project and break it down into manageable pieces and then how to build an action plan so that you hit your deadlines with your team. By the end of the course, you will have created a Project Scope document, Stakeholder Responsibility Matrix, sequenced a task list, added task owners, and a explored several popular project views using Project Management software. You will be ready to tackle a project on your own or will be equipped to take a higher-level course in Project Management. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions.

Status: Team Management
Status: Stakeholder Management
BeginnerGuided Project1 hour

Featured reviews

PB

4.0Reviewed Nov 3, 2020

Nice course, Dear Megan Peck. It can be made more interesting by including hands-on work and case studies, for better clarity to prepare one for a job or higher studies in PM.

MS

5.0Reviewed Jun 8, 2020

Overall everything is good and have great experience about online project. I am very thankful to Coursera.org learning platform where I am learning new skills and enhance of existing skills.

KK

4.0Reviewed Jan 27, 2021

Was a lot of technical problems, short time for session. After time, cannot open again. Still useful, to know how to create basic PM project in Asana. Could just look in youtube.. :D

NH

5.0Reviewed Apr 28, 2020

This is a great course for somebody unfamiliar with project management software and how to use it to help make the process easier for everyone to visualize and understand.

KB

5.0Reviewed Jun 18, 2020

Thanks a lot for a brief and short course. This was amazing. I learned by doing a practice, this is effects immediately and deep to course!

VW

5.0Reviewed Apr 23, 2025

This was a very concise guided project. It provided a great hands on introduction to project management using PM software. Great tutorial.

PS

5.0Reviewed Jun 8, 2020

The course is great for someone who would like to learn to start a project. It is provided by using the simple tool which is easy to understand.

ES

5.0Reviewed Aug 14, 2020

Easy to use, simple, straight forward, no extra jargon to make it difficult to understand. Overall a very good beginner course for basic project management.

JJ

5.0Reviewed May 3, 2020

The Coursera provided course introduction to project management course was superb.it helped me to learn about project management and project planning.

D

4.0Reviewed May 1, 2020

gained some knowledge on project management and hands on experience, done only one project and it's so simple, it would be great if there is another project added to it.

OW

5.0Reviewed Oct 4, 2020

It is a wonderful course though the training time was short, I wish there is a system that is available for someone to go back to or study whenever you wish to. (a study book) for reference purposes.

CB

4.0Reviewed Jul 5, 2020

I felt that the course went a little fast. I didn't have the Rhyme product set up on my computer. I didn't know that I needed it set up on my computer

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