GRATIS: Official Google Project Management certificate

Start Your Career in Tech

Prepare for a new career in the high-growth field of project management, no experience or degree required. Project managers are natural problem-solvers. They set the plan and guide teammates, and manage changes, risks, and stakeholders.

Gain in-demand skills that will prepare you for an entry-level job. Learn from Google employees whose foundations in project management served as launchpads for their own careers.

LEVEL: Beginner

TUITION FEE: Free

The Work in Tech Program equips you with every certification you need to kickstart your career in IT support. Learn effectively, gain in-demand skills and change your life.

Job-Focused Curriculum

The Work in Tech program developed by Google.org will teach you the essential and relevant skills to start a career in IT support.

Flexible and Online

Follow the program at your own pace. The course material is designed for beginners and can be finished in 2 to 5 months, with at least 10 hours per week of study time.

Community Support

Join a cohort of learners and grow together. You’ll be part of the active Work in Tech community with access to support during the course.

Career Prospects

There's great demand for IT support professionals. This program includes job search training and access to network opportunities to accelerate your career development.

Skills you will obtain:

• Know how to manage and run agile and traditional projects & programs from initiation to completion.

• Possess a toolbox of templates and artifacts to manage an array of scenarios and essential elements (e.g. schedules, budgets, requirements, etc.).

• Understand organizational structure, business processes, effective communication and leadership styles.

Content breakdown

• 285 Videos
• 152 Readings
• 245 Quizzes
• 89 Hands-on Exercises

Modules Overview

Foundations of project management

This course is the first in a series of six to equip you with the skills you need to apply to introductory-level roles in project management. Project managers play a key role in leading, planning and implementing critical projects to help their organizations succeed. In this course, you’ll discover foundational project management terminology and gain a deeper understanding of the role and responsibilities of a project manager. We’ll also introduce you to the kinds of jobs you might pursue after completing this program.

Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project

This course will show you how to set a project up for success in the first phase of the project life cycle: the project initiation phase. In exploring the key components of this phase, you’ll learn how to define and manage project goals, deliverables, scope, and success criteria. You’ll discover how to use tools and templates like stakeholder analysis grids and project charters to help you set project expectations and communicate roles and responsibilities.

Project Planning: Putting it all together

This course will explore how to map out a project in the second phase of the project life cycle: the project planning phase. You will examine the key components of a project plan, how to make accurate time estimates, and how to set milestones. Next, you will learn how to build and manage a budget and how the procurement processes work.

Project Execution: Running the Project

This course will delve into the execution and closing phases of the project life cycle. You will learn what aspects of a project to track and how to track them. You will also learn how to effectively manage and communicate changes, dependencies, and risks. As you explore quality management, you will learn how to measure customer satisfaction and implement continuous improvement and process improvement techniques. Next, you will examine how to prioritize data, how to use data to inform your decision-making, and how to effectively present that data. Then, you will strengthen your leadership skills as you study the stages of team development and how to manage team dynamics.

Agile Project Management

This course will explore the history, approach, and philosophy of Agile project management, including the Scrum framework. You will learn how to differentiate and blend Agile and other project management approaches. As you progress through the course, you will learn more about Scrum, exploring its pillars and values and comparing essential Scrum team roles. You will discover how to build, manage, and refine a product backlog, implement Agile’s value-driven delivery strategies, and define a value roadmap. You will also learn strategies to effectively organize the five important Scrum events for a Scrum team, introduce an Agile or Scrum approach to an organization, and coach an Agile team.

Capstone: Applying Project Management in the Real World

By the end of this course, you will have developed a portfolio of project management artifacts that will demonstrate the skills you have learned throughout the entire program, such as your ability to manage stakeholders and teams, organize plans, and communicate project details. These artifacts can exhibit your career readiness when applying for jobs in the field. To further prepare you to interview for project management jobs, you will reflect on past projects, develop an “elevator pitch,” and anticipate common interview question.

Certification

Earn an official Google certificate with ID check.

Prepare for in-demand jobs such as:

• Project manager
• Project coordinator
• Project assistant
• Operations manager
• Operations associate
• Program manager
• Scrum Master
• Project associate
• Project analyst
• Project administrator
• Technical project manager

Extra benefits:

On completion of the Project Management course, learners can avail of a 40% discount on the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Certificate.

This course is offered via Kyna, in partnership with INCO Academy and Google.org.

Enrol with ease via: https://www.kyna.co/courses/work-in-tech-ux-design