By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile The first information session for potential WST 2019 participants was on Tuesday 11 December. There was great energy and enthusiasm in the room that has made us even more...
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile If you learned about the new suite of training we have on offer, you are probably wondering how you can sign up! We are delighted to announce there are...
Work Smarter Together 2019 (WST ’19), Thursday, 14 March is an exciting UCD-wide event dedicated to celebrating our creativity, innovation and collaboration, and this year’s theme is “Our people, shaping a better future”. In...
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile We had a wonderful turnout of over 70 people at our October WST event ‘The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives’ which took place on Tuesday 30 October in the Moore...
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile A date to put in your diary for after Christmas(!)… Work Smarter Together will take place again on 13 and 14 March 2019. Planning has already begun, ideas...
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the December 2018 WST newsletter and all the very best for the holiday seasons ahead. Time flies and we find ourselves about to enter the last...
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is a PICK chart used for? A previous post was about using affinity brainstorming to get ideas from a group of people. A PICK chart is used to...
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the A3 used for? In Lean, the A3 (yes, named after a piece of paper larger than A4) report gives you both a problem solving process and...
By Maureen Quinn, President’s Office The UCD PA Network is planning a programme of events and training to enhance our respective areas for 2019. More details will be revealed in January 2019. In the meantime, if...
By Jimmy Muldoon The UCD Technical Development Network in association with the UK group HEaTED is running a Network Meeting for Third Level technical staff, on the topic “Technical Careers – Making a Successful...
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Community of Practice for School Managers commenced meeting during the 2018/19 Autumn semester. Initial meetings have covered both operational and strategic issues, and the...
By Sabine Harrison, School of Agriculture and Food Science I am a food and nutrition technologist in the School of Agriculture and Food Science. Having completed my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training in...
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald Phase 1 of the rollout of the Unified Support Model (USM) began in October 2018. Since then we have made great progress, working with the first four offices...
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile What happens after training with UCD Agile – is the training used, what is used in what way, what helps and what impedes? We use our annual October survey...
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile In November 2018 UCD Agile launched three new training sessions and began teaching an enhanced version of the established Yellow training. Lots of feedback and thinking went into these...
