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Training in Birmingham
Birmingham is the third-largest city in the United Kingdom, with roughly 1.2 million inhabitants in the city area, itis the most populated English local government district. Birmingham is commonly referred to as the ‘second city’ of the UK.Birmingham is 100 miles from Central London. It is the social, cultural, financial, and commercial centre of the Midlands. Birmingham is a major international commercial centre in the UK. Its economy is the second-largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the largest centre of higher education in the country outside London. Birmingham’s major cultural institutions make it a popular tourist destination, and the 4th most-visited city in the UK by people from abroad.If you’d like attend training at our Birmingham location, you can find our local training venue at Izabella House, 24 Regent Place, Birmingham B1 3NJ, United Kingdom. The venue is located in the Jewellery Quarter and is no more than a 30 minute walk away from Birmingham New Street railway station, Snow Hill railway, Birmingham Moor Street railway station and Birmingham coach station.
Birmingham New Street Railway Station
Travel to and from Birmingham
Roads
The city is served by possibly the most well-known motorway junction in the United Kingdom: Spaghetti Junction, a colloquial name for the Gravelly Hill Interchange. Birmingham introduced a Clean Air Zone from 1 June 2021, which charges polluting vehicles to travel into the city centre.Air
Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Airport is located east of the city in Solihull, it is the 3rd busiest airport outside the London area, services operate from Birmingham to many destinations in Europe, Africa, the Americas, Middle East, and Asia. Birmingham is also served by, to a lesser extent, by East Midlands Airport, northeast of the city centre.
Public transport
There are a total of 34 railway stations in Birmingham. The main railway station in the city is Birmingham New Street, which is the busiest railway station in the UK outside London. Services run from London Euston, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley to Birmingham. Birmingham Moor Street and Birmingham Snow Hill form the northern termini trains running from London Marylebone.Local and regional services are operated from all of Birmingham’s stations by West Midlands Trains.Curzon Street railway station will be the terminus for trains to the city on High Speed 2, which will open around 2030.
Birmingham Snow Hill Station
Bus and trams
Birmingham’s local public transport network is co-ordinated by Transport for West Midlands. The network includes the busiest urban rail system in the UK outside London, the UK’s busiest urban bus system outside London, and the West Midlands Metro, a light rail system that operates between Library in Central Birmingham and Wolverhampton, Wednesbury, and West Bromwich.
Canals
An extensive canal system still remains in Birmingham from the Industrial Revolution. The city has more miles of canal than Venice, though the canals in Birmingham are a less prominent and essential feature due to the larger size of the city and the fact that few of its buildings are accessed by canal. The canals are mainly used today for leisure purposes.
Tourism in Birmingham
Theatre
Birmingham Repertory Theatre is Britain’s longest-established producing theatre, touring nationally and internationally. Other producing theatres in the city include the Blue Orange Theatre in the Jewellery Quarter, the Banner Theatre, the Maverick Theatre Company and Kindle Theatre.The Alexandra Theatre and the Birmingham Hippodrome host large-scale productions, while other stages across the city include the Crescent Theatre, the Custard Factory, the Old Joint Stock Theatre and the Drum in Aston.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Birmingham Hippodrome
The Birmingham Royal Ballet is one of the United Kingdom’s 5 major ballet companies and resides at the Birmingham Hippodrome The company’s associated ballet school – Elmhurst School for Dance in Edgbaston – is the oldest vocational dance school in the country.
Festivals
Birmingham is home to many national festivals. The city’s largest single-day event is its St. Patrick’s Day parade.Multicultural events include the Bangla Mela and the Vaisakhi Mela. The Birmingham Heritage Festival is a Mardi Gras style event in August. The Caribbean Birmingham International Carnival takes place every other year.The UK’s largest two-day Gay Pride is Birmingham Pride which is typically held over a weekend in May. Birmingham Pride takes place in the gay village.The Birmingham Tattoo is a long-standing military show held annually at the National Indoor Arena.Since 2001, Birmingham has been host to the Frankfurt Christmas Market, the UK’s largest outdoor Christmas market.Other festivals in the city include the Birmingham International Jazz Festival and Party in the Park, which allows new artists to showcase themselves and their music in a one-day music festival.
Birmingham Pride LGBTQ Festival
PRINCE2 Agile FAQs
PRINCE2 Agile helps facilitate lean-agile product development without sacrificing the reliability offered by traditional project management.PRINCE2 Agile allows you to focus on management and product delivery with a suite of agile tools designed to help you manage and react to changing requirements.PRINCE2 Agile has been developed in collaboration with veteran agile practitioners around the world. It works with all establish Agile approaches and agile tools, allowing easy integration into existing agile project management frameworks.PRINCE2 Agile provides training and guidance highly focused on the agile environment. Earning your PRINCE2 Agile certification will teach you how project managers can remain a relevant and important part of agile product development and how a project manager can collaborate with staff in standard agile roles.
AXELOS calls PRINCE2 Agile "the world's most complete agile project management solution."Based on the ideas first outlined in the Agile Manifesto, PRINCE2 Agile project management was developed in response to the changing nature of project management practices, new technologies, and new ways of thinking.PRINCE2 Agile allows project managers to easily integrate Agile practices, tools and ways of working into existing project management frameworks without costly revisions to project lifecycles without the need to launch enterprise-wide change initiatives.PRINCE2 Agile can also benefit agile managers who desire the reliability, governance, and oversight of the PRINCE2 method in complex projects.Candidates who enrol in a PRINCE2 Agile Foundation course will learn how modern concepts aid the management of successful projects. Topics include the use of MoSCoW prioritisation, Kanban, Scrum and other tools, as well as unique agile roles such as the Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner.Candidates who attend PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner training will learn to seamlessly integrate agile practices with PRINCE2 governance and controls in agile environments.
PRINCE2 is a customer-focused project management methodology. It offers a set of principles, themes, and processes that helps organisations weigh the costs and risks of initiating a project. It helps the ongoing management of projects to ensure they remain a worthwhile investment.Agile approaches do not focus on the value or management of a project as a whole. Instead, they focus on the development level, ensuring that any given product or service is delivered in the most efficient manner possible through an iterative cycle of development, testing, and analysing customer feedback.While PRINCE2 enables the customer to remain focused on the project’s original business goals, Agile approaches are very responsive to changes in the project environment and customer requirements.Utilising Agile approaches on PRINCE2 projects allows project managers to combine the structure and governance of PRINCE2 with the flexibility and responsiveness of Agile. PRINCE2 Agile training helps PRINCE2 project managers adapt their practices in agile ways.
Yes. Despite the common misconception that PRINCE2 struggles to adjust to changing business requirements, the PRINCE2 framework is, in fact, easy to adapt and tailor to suit any project environment.PRINCE2 is sometimes described as having a prescriptive ‘waterfall’ approach, whereby requirements are documented and approved before moving to the design, build, and testing phase. This is, however, incorrect. PRINCE2 assumes that on many projects, requirements emerge and evolve as the project continues.PRINCE2 manages project-level changes using its ‘change control’ approach. Smaller changes at the development level can easily be managed using the prioritisation techniques common in Agile approaches.PRINCE2 Agile elaborates on the tools team leaders, and project managers can use at the development level to facilitate faster autonomous development.
It’s not accurate to compare PRINCE2 and Agile as equivalent project management solutions. For one, agile has nothing to do with project management. Instead, it focuses squarely on issues encountered by individuals and small teams at the development level.PRINCE2, on the other hand, is generally more concerned with the ‘big questions’ like “Should we do this project?” “How do we avoid risks and failure” or “How can we be sure that 6 months from now this product will still be desirable?”PRINCE2 and Agile are not competing methods. PRINCE2 Agile was developed specifically to show that they are complementary approaches to different problems.