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About the Course

The goal of the course is to give you the tools to initiate a project plan, manage both stakeholders and relationships, organize their team, develop a project charter, and build a business case for a project. By the end of this course you will be able to: - Perform a project assessment using information from previous projects and lessons learned - Identify key deliverables based on business requirements while managing customer expectations - Perform a stakeholder analysis and create a management plan - Analyze and develop a project organization - Create a project charter - Explain the business case for a project and calculate Net Present Value - Inform stakeholders of the charter and ensure all parties know the deliverables and expectations As part of the course, you will prepare organization charts, create a Stakeholder Register, and write a Project Charter based on an engineering project in a provided Case Study. The Stakeholder Register will outline the key parties to the project, their concerns and how you will manage their expectations. Your Project Charter will provide the key guidance your team needs to understand the scope, requirements and purpose for the project. All of this will position you for initiating and planning your first project and/or understanding how you can maximize your contributions on your next project team. Rice Center for Engineering Leadership is a Registered Education Provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete this course on the Certificate track will be awarded 12 hours of Profession Development Units. These are recognized by PMI for continuing education or can be applied toward the 35 hours of education required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc....

Top reviews

DY

Sep 2, 2020

Curso de inicial de la especialización de Project Management. Un buen curso para aproximarse al mundo de la gestión de proyecto de manera sencilla y didáctica.

Muy buen nivel del profesorado.

FA

Aug 27, 2020

This course will give in-depth knowledge of project management. Peer-graded assignments will help us a lot to think in other ways how others will proceed and learn from their assignments too.

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By Sreekar P

Apr 7, 2021

The only thing that stops me from awarding 5 stars is the lack of content on real life examples which makes this a very abstract exercise. While there is a good fictional case study that helps in turning concepts to practice, the value will be compounded if only instructors added more real life examples to every concept they wanted to impart.

Apart from that dissatisfaction, the course itself is easy to absorb for working professionals. It might offer good introduction to beginners but they may have to revisit after experience to get best out of it.

By Aykut C

Oct 5, 2021

I've written the details on the survey but I think this course needs more field related case studies and examples, conflict management, human factor related issues etc. I think project management is not only about charts and cost management. Other than that Presantation made by the Instructor's was fine but moslty poorly presented with all respect to their experience. I still think that every engineer should get this specialization. Thank you Rice and Coursera.

By Bhagya J

May 6, 2021

The course was awesome and very insightful! However, I would like to highlight an issue which I faced throughout the course. In some of the videos, it was difficult to comprehend the video lecture due to low volume of Professor. I had to go through the written section multiple times and re-watch the videos to fully comprehend. Hopefully, this technical issue would be solved and is not persistent in other courses of this specialization!

By Amir M O

Jun 27, 2019

A relatively good course. Week 1-3 are pretty good but week 4 is absolutely vague and impossible to follow.

The handout provided by the instructors is good but doesn't 100% match the video lectures.

Another flaw is that you have to wait a lot so your assignments get peer reviewed. So that may cause you stay longer in the course and pay more for the subscription.

By Andrea O

Sep 27, 2020

Good contents but a but the voice explanation is sometimes hard to follow if you also read the slide. I'd suggest to refer more strictly to the slide contents and wording or reducing further the content of the slides to give the right importance to the speech. As is I struggle to understand if it is better to follow the slide or the voice

By Atef A

Nov 14, 2020

The course is well put, good informations, it gives you all the deliverables you can use in a real porject, but the course materials and presentation on paper can be better, also i would appreciated it if the study case was shorter, since the tasks are short and on point. In general, good initiating course for project management.

By Anders T B

Dec 16, 2019

Well-organized and informative course. Easy to follow along with transcripts of lectures with highlighting text and the ability to save notes directly from here.

But they rely a bit to much on people buying the course material to read the background material. This could be handled by increasing the length of lectures.