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Back in 2021, Google released a series of cer­tifi­cate pro­grams, includ­ing one focused on Project Man­age­ment. Designed to give stu­dents “an immer­sive under­stand­ing of the prac­tices and skills need­ed to suc­ceed in an entry-lev­el project man­age­ment role,” the cer­tifi­cate pro­gram fea­tures six cours­es over­all, includ­ing:

• Foun­da­tions of Project Man­age­ment
• Project Ini­ti­a­tion: Start­ing a Suc­cess­ful Project
• Project Plan­ning: Putting It All Togeth­er
• Project Exe­cu­tion: Run­ning the Project
• Agile Project Man­age­ment
• Cap­stone: Apply­ing Project Man­age­ment in the Real World

More than 1.7 mil­lion peo­ple have since enrolled in the course sequence. And Google has now updat­ed the cours­es with 6 new videos on how to use AI in project man­age­ment. The videos will teach stu­dents how to boost project man­age­ment skills with AI, iden­ti­fy poten­tial project risks with gen AI, use AI to improve project com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and more.

The Project Man­age­ment pro­gram takes about six months to com­plete (assum­ing you put in 10 hours per week), and it should cost about $300 in total. Fol­low­ing a 7‑day free tri­al, stu­dents will be charged $49 per month until they com­plete the pro­gram.

All Google career cours­es are host­ed on the Cours­era plat­form. Final­ly, it’s worth men­tion­ing that any­one who enrolls in this cer­tifi­cate before Novem­ber 30, 2024 will get access to Google AI Essen­tials at no cost.

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