hi everyone i'm aliana and welcome to my channel today i will talk about the google product
management certificate courses i graduated from college a few months ago and i wanted to learn
this course for a few reasons first of all i want to use the skill in product management
on personal project i have many ideas in mind and i want to turn my ideas into reality another
reason is that i want to improve my collaboration skills and to prepare for my future work this
includes working in the agile team and use asana to track things like timeline and responsibility
another reason is that i want to open up a career opportunity for myself
although i'm more interested in product design i think pm is another thing that i'm interested in
and i'm willing to try i completed this product management courses in around three months
and without further ado let me start with a summary of the course
first thing first is not just one course so this certificate has six courses foundations of project
management project initiation project planning project execution agile project management
and capstone the first four courses are traditional product or project management the
fifth one which is also much longer than the other courses is agile project management course and the
capstone project just put everything together so for each course they will have a lot of videos
readings quizzes and peer graded assignment for the videos they are usually really short and for
their reading most of them are summarized of the video and provide you a little bit more resources
for quizzes you have to pass the quizzes to go to the next section and for peer graded assignment
it's pretty much you completing an assignment and then you grade two other people's assignment
and two people will also grade you if you pass then your pass if you don't then you do it again
now let me take you through the user interface of the course as you can see here these are the six
courses that i was talking about and let's go to course five the agile project management course
so here's how the interface will look you have videos readings discussion prompt
and practice quizzes let's just take a look at one of the video and here i am using 1.25 speed
because the speed is usually designed to be slow so that everyone can understand let's take a look
hello and welcome to agile project management so far this program has covered the foundations
of project management and what it takes to be a product manager we've explored the phases of the
project life cycle initiation planning execution and closing and we've reviewed lots of different
tools and techniques and this is another thing that i think the course has designed really well
which is having really clear slides in the presentation and the videos
you can also see that um all of the reading and the videos are pretty short the videos usually are
around 10 minutes usually less than 10 minutes and the readings has clear links um point forms and
sometimes just providing you more resources right here let's take a look at the practice quiz so
i'm just going to view feedback for this practice chris this is the adrenal manifesto and i got 100
all of the questions in the practice quiz will be multiple choices
and some of them has just one answer but others have more than one answers
the biggest difference between the final capstone course and all the other courses
is that this one has way too many assignments as you can see it almost just started with a
peer-graded assignment and in a peer-graded assignment you see an interface like this
there will be instructions on what you will do scenarios sometimes materials that you
will look through actually there's always materials that you have to look through
and then different steps and then there will be a submission button you will submit everything
here and it clearly tells you what will be graded so if you hit all those points you should be good
um you can also just paste a google link because everything that you do here you can make it
in google doc google slides because it's a google course you can make everything on the
google platform now let me quickly show you how i took the course and learned from the course
so the biggest thing that i did is just taking notes so i have this lifelong learning page on
notion and i record most of my classes that i took here so this is how my notes look like
i usually just start a different page for each course let's take a look at the foundation
of project management so i just separate my notes by week and just note down some
resources and also some definitions that i think are useful
many of these are just copy and paste from the resources
in the tables are another useful thing that i found
so sometimes screenshots yeah this is just how my notes look like for me i think taking notes
are really helpful but everywhere i have different learning technique so i think
you should definitely find another way that suits you better and here i also did a capstone project
resources list so in the capstone project you'll be looking at a lot of documents and also meeting
notes as if the project actually takes place in real time so in the beginning you will be
only seeing things like project proposal company okrs and following that the project will give you
more and more meeting notes in a chronological manner and this capstone project page has helped
me to gather everything together and make me be able to annotate through different things
and for the capstone project what you would really do is just a series of assignments and things
like this close-up report and your portfolio is just really a series of assignments that you did
together with another slides you will create to summarize everything you did
some other methods that i use while learning this course are first finding an accountability partner
so i basically just ask my roommate to take the same course with me and we will do around one
week of content every day and one week of content in this course probably will take one to two hours
but for the last two courses it will take longer than that another tip that i used is pretty much
setting the deadline of everything because you know if i stop taking the course for a few days
i will lose momentum and i will just stop taking the entire course so make sure that
i take at least two or three weeks of content per week no matter whether i'm traveling doing
this or that job hunting taking interviews it's just always great to learn something every day
now regarding what i like about the course the first thing is the clarity of the video
every video in all the google courses are really really slow clear and short another thing that i
like is the abundant resources that this course provided me especially the google templates let
me quickly run you through a few templates that the course provided this is the okr template
this is the success criteria template stakeholder analysis project charter wbs project plan timeline
budget template risk management template
communication plan project plan project status report roam
retrospective in agile presentation meeting agenda
invitation email close our report product backlog ad estimation
sprint backlog emails for the release plan job search
another thing that i like about this certificate course is that it consists of the agile project
management aspect so our job is really really important these days especially
if you want to work for early day startups or even large companies for example i know a lot
of engineers are actually using the agile project management approach and they will
be using tools like trilos and the sonos and they will have daily stand up and weekly sprint
and just by knowing how this agile thing works will benefit you no matter whether you are a pm
or simply just a team player in the agile team so this agile course takes you through the basic of
why agile what's agile and also take you through the asana template that google will use in their
agile project management approach another thing is that this course often use an office plan company
example so it's kind of like you're working toward a project where your company is trying
to sell small office plans to office workers and you're going through the timeline throughout the
course and you're just handling all the challenges while you are being the project or product manager
the capstone project is also really helpful if you're somebody already having a little bit of
product or project management knowledge skills or background you might just take the final course
or the final two courses and that will run you through the entire product management process
what i like about the capstone spec is that it is going through a chronological manner so each
assignment is actually telling you a little bit more about the project and while you are starting
the first assignment is like you're just starting the project but the final assignment will be three
months later or two months later so everything's kind of like a role play of a real project now the
final thing that i like about the course is the summary in the end so if you finish taking the
entire course especially the sixth one they will have four cheat sheets in the end of the course
and those cheat sheets just take you through the entire project management process and help you
define different terms and provide a little bit of guidance now moving to what i disliked about
the course the first thing i disliked is the flow of the course but let me just put it out here that
the first four courses are so much more easier and slower than the final two courses um especially
the first one the first foundation courses will make you feel like oh it's really easy to learn
and give you a lot of confidence but probably make you adopt the course a little bit because
it's not that hardcore the agile course for me took way longer than the other courses and the
final capstone is just way way longer than the other courses so for that i really had to push
myself through a little bit and knowing that oh i won't be finished this course as fast as the
other courses is a little bit disappointing but that's the case so i will just let you know now
another thing that i dislike about the course is that in the beginning it tells you that you have
a portfolio ready after taking the entire courses however i am somebody that has a design background
so for me a portfolio is the actual website that you can showcase to other people and consists of
different projects that you did um and a thorough run-through of the project that looks really good
but for this course your portfolio is really just a series of assignments that you did and there's a
little thing that tells you how to actually make a website to showcase your portfolio so you won't be
able to have a website ready or actual portfolio ready in the end of the course but you will have
a lot of assignments ready that you will be able to showcase um just don't skip those assignments
guys another thing i want to say is that usually when i post this kind of video there will be many
comments that ask me hey would you be able to land a job based on what you learned from this
course and what i want to tell you is that the course provides you the skill and the experience
is something that we have to go out there and look for project and work on things in the real world
so both the skill and the experience are important but this course will provide you the skill i think
that's pretty much what i want to say for this video thank you so much for watching my video i
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