PRINCE2 Agile
Classroom or self-paced online
PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification
PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certification
More information about Manchester
Training in Manchester
Manchester is the most populated city in North West England and Greater Manchester. It is fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and an arc of towns with which it forms a continuous conurbation.If you’d like to attend training at our Manchester location, you can find our training venue at Swan Buildings, 20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW, United Kingdom.
Oxford Road Station Manchester
Manchester Craft and Design Centre
Our classes are neat the Near Manchester Craft and Design Centre, just a 20 minute walk from either Chorlton Road coach station, Oxford Road train station or Piccadilly train station.
Travel to and from Manchester
Rail
Manchester Liverpool Road was the world’s first purpose-built passenger railway station. Its buildings now form part of the Science & Industry Museum.
London Heathrow Airport
Manchester Piccadilly Station
Manchester is at the centre of an extensive county-wide railway network with two mainline stations: Manchester Piccadilly station and Manchester Victoria station,
Air
Manchester Airport serves Manchester, Northern England and North Wales. Services cover many destinations in Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and AsiaThe smaller City Airport Manchester lies to the west of Manchester city centre. Today, it is a flight school, and home to both the Greater Manchester Police Air Support Unit and the North West Air Ambulance.
Manchester Airport
Things to do in Manchester
Music
Manchester Arena
The city’s main music venue is Manchester Arena, it is the largest arena of its type in Europe. It is also the busiest indoor arena in the world with more visitors than the The O2 Arena, London.
Other venues include Manchester Apollo, Albert Hall, Victoria Warehouse and the Manchester Academy.Smaller venues include the Band on the Wall, the Night and Day Café, the Ruby Lounge, and The Deaf Institute.
Manchester Academy – Manchester University Students Union
Performing arts
Manchester Opera House
Manchester has a thriving theatre and dance scene A number of large performance venues, including Manchester Opera House, Palace Theatre and the Royal Exchange Theatre feature touring shows and West End productions.The city has hosts the Manchester International Festival, a twice-annual arts festival with a focus on original work, is housed at The Factory, named after Manchester’s Factory Records.
Museums
Manchester’s museums celebrate Manchester’s history, industrial heritage and its role in the Industrial Revolution.
Museum of Transport Manchester
Imperial War Museum North
The Museum of Transport displays a collection of historic buses and trams, Trafford Park is home to Imperial War Museum North, while the Manchester Museum has notable Egyptology and natural history collections.
Other exhibition spaces and museums in Manchester include Islington Mill in Salford, the National Football Museum at Urbis, Castlefield Gallery, the Manchester Costume Gallery at Platt Fields Park, the People’s History Museum and the Manchester Jewish Museum.
National Football Museum
Manchester trivia
Manchester Cathedral
During the Second World War casting and machining expertise at locomotive factories in Gorton was switched to bomb making. Rubber works in Chorlton-on-Medlock made barrage balloons and in Trafford Park, engineers made Avro Manchester and Avro Lancaster bombers.Manchester was the target of heavy bombing by the Luftwaffe. The biggest raid took place during the Christmas Blitz in December 1940.A large part of the historic city centre was destroyed, including 165 warehouses, 200 business premises, and 150 offices. 376 were killed and 30,000 houses were damaged. Manchester Cathedral, Royal Exchange and Free Trade Hall were seriously damaged.
Regeneration began in the late 1980s, two bids to host the Olympic Games were part of a process to raise the profile of the city.Large city sections from the 1960s have been demolished, re-developed. The 47-storey Beetham Tower was the tallest UK building outside London for some years.
Royal Exchange
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.