Google Project Management

Hey mate, lots of comments here offering great help. Didn’t have time to read through all of them so hopefully I’m not repeating anything anyone else said.

I also work in IT for big tech in NZ and my biggest piece of advice is to get your Google Scrummaster + Project management certifications. (Free and about 10hr a week work)

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management?utm_source=google&utm_medium=institutions&utm_campaign=gwgsite&_ga=2.202886105.974201492.1623789918-662428525.1623789918

Big tech companies that pay well live by these courses and they go a long way to getting a promotion + better pay. (Learn Agile software development too)

At your current role, speak to your manager about being interested in taking on some leadership opportunities. Run a project, lead a meeting etc. take on small things in your current role to build your cv.

Happy for you to DM me any specific questions.

Love the awareness too. You got this!

Tech companies employ lots of people who don't have degrees. You can become a Google certified project manager for free (or IT support, UX designer etc. check the list). There are literally tens of thousands of job adverts right now for those roles, and they don't require a degree.

Depending on your goals, you might want to check out Google's Project Management Certificate (https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management)

My bad I had the wrong link up there. The full link is

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management?utm_source=gg&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=15-GoogleProjectManagement-US&utm_content=15-GoogleProjectManagement-US&campaignid=12507120706&adgroupid=125843721784&device=m&keyword=google%20project%20manager%20certificate&matchtype=b&network=g&devicemodel=&adpostion=&creativeid=504730238867&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6s2IBhCnARIsAP8RfAjlcaSKOoy7du6N8K8soUk4Z8yH9C7932OCcUb8J4D4KbMaWvYfl2QaAus7EALw_wcB

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management

If you do it for 4 hours a day, you'll have it done before Monday. And (if you pay for it), there's a shiny certificate.

Try the Google Project Management course throught Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management?utm_source=gg&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=15-GoogleCareerCert-HubPage-ROW&utm_content=15-GoogleCareerCert-HubPage-ROW&campaignid=12525380573&adgroupid=123096382230&device=m&keyword=google%20certificate%20courses&matchtype=b&network=g&devicemodel=&adpostion=&creativeid=505430311641&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=Cj0KCQjws4aKBhDPARIsAIWH0JU0cNENyq5YdJV-mLDQlXMPxdGglQF9sR2txsml4qsxGTrKoX0syKYaAp4nEALw_wcB

I'm doing the Google Project Management Professional cert on Coursera. Great material so far imo.

https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management

Coursera: Google Project Management Certificate

6 months course at 10h/week. Videos, Reading and practical tasks are great. (If you know the material you could power through it in 7 days

Amazing, thank you for the guidance! I'm hoping I can parlay some of my existing experience into being an attractive candidate for a product role.

Not sure if this question is appropriate for this thread, but would this Google certification hold any value for someone trying to get into a product role? https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management

Hello. I'm a senior software / solutions engineer in the consultation industry. (Basically, I'm a mercenary for hire for building your apps lol.)

Here's what I expect of folks:

Ultra-junior: I can have you doing front-end work, QA, writing tests (if the client is willing to pay for them), that sort of thing. We often start our more junior folks out in QA. You still need to have at least enough programming skills to be dangerous and be able to build apps in the front-end (through tech such as React Native for mobile or Bootstrap for desktop / web).

Junior: I would prefer you to be either a fresh graduate or a bootcamp attendee or self-learner who also has some backend knowledge. I can start having you help with bug fixes, API integration from front-end to back-end, and maybe some backend stuff.

Mid-level: I need to be able to trust you with building some features end-to-end (front-end, back-end, db) without too much supervision. I'll still be reviewing your code, but I expect you to understand requirements from tickets pretty solidly and to test your own code before sending off to QA.

From there on, you could get a pretty good grasp of things. I would say any of the major languages (JavaScript / NodeJS, C#, Python, Java, plus HTML+CSS, and a handful of others) will get you gainfully employed. Pick whichever languages you like the best that are also in the top 10 languages used for building apps or websites.

Native apps are going to be a different beast altogether and will require different skills and also have a different culture, so I can't make as many suggestions there. There are many, very bad C++ programmers out there. I say this as someone who started off on desktop / systems engineering and made my way to web. But if that's what you end up enjoying most, go for it.

Also know that there is a need for project managers as well. If you feel more comfortable in that space, consider starting off with this course: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Take the PMP course or a good project management project. Should be enough to make you aware of all the pitfalls to avoid and what success metrics you should implement and focus on.

Check this one on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management

The Google course fulfills the 35 hours of training required for the PMP exam - in case you'd like to purse it.

The outpouring of support here is so awesome to see! Use this opportunity to challenge yourself and always ask for feedback from others. Admit when you didn't do something quite right, and do it better next time. That alone get's you 75% of the way there!

Materially speaking, someone else called this out here a while back and I saved it for when I have some time. Maybe this can help you? https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management?action=enroll&aid=true

Good luck and happy PMing!

I'm currently a Support Manager at a software company looking to make a transition into Project Management. Which certificate would be best to show my skills in PM and set me up for the most success on the market?

Google's Project Management Course of Coursera
PMP Certification Program

Just to piggyback off of this, I am getting my Project Management Certificate through Coursera offered through Google and so far it's been a great experience if you may be interested u/u/schmidtforge.

>I love the people interactions. Estimation, planning, strategy, cross cultures, process optimization, etc. I have done a lot of planning as a volunteer or student jobs before and I really thrive in it. Unfortunately it's very difficult to land something like that when you're straight form school.

That's what I do as a Technical Program Manager ! I switched from Engineering to TPM and I love it. It sounds like this might be more up your alley. :)

If you want to do training, you can try the Google TPM Certification or the PMP Certification ! If you haven't done much in program management then the Google one is a better choice for you. In my personal experience, having a technical background is a huge advantage in the TPM/PgM space, because you can get into technical details and help drive technical decisions as well as manage the schedule, tasks, etc. In my current role at a FAANG company, I'm managing data center capacity planning and writing really cool dashboards and stuff. It's fun.

You can also consider UI/UX design if you are artistic.

There are many options !!

>now if it helps or hurts your confidence, but based off the experience you describe, I would think you c

Thank you so much for your reply. So doing this course :
https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management
Would be very aligned with my work experience and make me more desirable on the open market. To make your comment actionable, I'm going to go ahead and tackle that course (its 6 months so not small). Thank you, I needed that push to commit. I do think a lot of my work experience falls outside of project management, but according to my research it's a good career path with the ability to move up in a company, would you say this is true? Thanks again for the reply.

Most comments already provide useful recommendations for the technical aspects, but please also consider the "people" aspect of the project. There are a couple of places where you can start to learn about project management, specially if you want to become a permanent team leader.

Recently Google published several certifications on coursera, one of them covers project management. I'm not studying that certification, so I can't vouch for that specific course; but I'm studying the certification on UX design, and it's a good introduction to the area.

Project Management Institute (link) offers several certification on precisely that, project management.

If you don't care about adding a certification to your resume, and you only want the knowledge you can read some books on agile and lean development. If you go to book4you.org you can find several related books and download them for free. You can also find several books about angular, if you need them.

the class/cert is really irrelevant, honestly even degrees mean little other than to check a box. I would just do it for fun and not spend too much of your own money on it.

I would not recommending spending $8000 on this lol, unless work will reimburse you : https://online.hbs.edu/subjects/leadership-management/?tempview=logoconvert

Here is one I am doing myself, $39 (full disclosure, I get full access to coursera for free at my job): https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/google-project-management

For the resume -- just go to the r/resume and steal a template/someone else's resume - change it to you name, put in your details and post it. Good luck