EdTECx in action – Book now
by Olivia Jackman, IT Services. EdTECx in action is in its third year and in tandem with EdTECx talks (which takes place in Spring), it is becoming a fixture in the UCD calendar. This year EdTECx in...
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Technical development networking event: Invitation to attend on Tuesday 29th August
By Jimmy Muldoon, TDN Chair, Senior Technical Officer, School of Chemistry. The Technical Development Network (TDN) is a UCD group which, with the assistance of HR and other affiliated units (such as Agile!), assists...
Call for participation in communities of practice for technical staff
By Jimmy Muldoon, TDN Chair, Senior Technical Officer, School of Chemistry. The UCD Technical Development Network is initially working to map the University technical space with a view to supporting the development of Technical...
Process Mapping 101
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? “What is a process?” I hear you ask… A process is a series of actions taken to achieve a desired result. A process...
The power of asking “Why?”
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? The 5 Why’s is a very simple technique to help you get to the root cause of a problem so that you can...
Local Programme Orientation Community of Practice: How it began
By Niall Dennehy, BA Student Progression Manager. Following a workshop on Tuesday 2nd May of this year that focused on Orientation timetabling, Erin O’Malley, Irene Rose and I began to discuss how orientation worked...
Local Programme Orientation Community of Practice (CoP): Our Story and What’s Happening Next
by Erin O’Malley, Programme Manager, UCD Engineering & Architecture Programme Office. Local Programme Orientation CoP Workshop – 18 July 2017 Within a number of weeks of informally coming together as a group with a common interest,...
Welcome to History
by Dr Sarah Feehan, School of History. The School of History participated in the ‘Programme orientation – more than just the week before term’ workshop which offered us the opportunity to discuss our approach to...
Save the date: 23 October 2017 for the next WST CoP event
The next WST CoP event will take place in the afternoon on 23 October and it is not to missed! The line-up promises an exciting mix of speakers and much like the WST Summer...
UCD Agile deliver their first in-house Lean Six Sigma training
By Olga Murdoch and Kim Lacey, UCD Agile. A big thank you to all those who attended our first in-house Lean Six Sigma training entitled “the Fundamentals of Lean for UCD”. The training was...
GIS and its potential for UCD
By Assoc Professor Gerald Mills, Head of School, School of Geography. A great deal of information that UCD gathers contains valuable geographic information that is rarely used for planning purposes. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...
Welcome to the August 2017 WST CoP Newsletter
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. Welcome to the second edition of our newsletter. We are delighted with the feedback received on our first edition in June 2017. Not only did you enjoy reading...