Let’s meet at the Technology Innovation get together
By Jeremy Britton, UCD Agile How do offices, teams and staff within UCD make best use of the technology available to them? There are many areas across campus who are experimenting with third...
Monthly Archive: November 2019
UCD WST October Event Recap
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile We had a great time at UCD Work Smarter Together October Event. We would like to thank you all again for coming and make it happen. Special thanks to...
Welcome to the November 2019 Newsletter
Welcome to our November Newsletter. There is never a time of the year when there is not an impending large volume, high effort, University-wide event just around the corner… and so we have end...
USM’s First Rapid Improvement Event
By Jeremy Britton & Amy McDonald, UCD Agile What is a Rapid Improvement Event? A Rapid Improvement Event (RIE) is a Lean approach to team-based problem-solving centered on an event it self which takes...
Announcing UCD Work Smarter Together February 2020
We couldn’t wait to share the good news: UCD Work Smarter Together (WST) February 2020 is back! Date: 20th February 2020 Time: 09.30am – 12.00pm Venue: Moore Auditorium, O’Brien Centre for Science You asked ...
UCD’s first Lean Practitioners
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile Lean Practitioner Certificate of Achievement Award took place at the #UCDWST October event. We are delighted to welcome UCD’s first 9 Lean Practitioners. Well done! Lean Practitioner workshop aims...
Agile’s training and consulting services
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile UCD Agile provides a variety of services to Schools, Colleges, units and teams such as consulting sessions, Lean training, workshop facilitation, Lean project delivery and support. Consulting engagements may...
The USM’s Journey to a Rapid Improvement Event
By Jeremy Britton & Amy McDonald, UCD Agile What is Continuous Improvement? Continuous Improvement is an ongoing effort to improve services or processes. A Continuous Improvement culture supports individuals and teams to evaluate and...
Using a CTQ-Tree to understand ‘customer’ requirements
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile What is a CTQ Tree used for? CTQ stands for Critical to Quality. CTQs then, are the critical requirements your customers have of you, your business, your process. CTQs...
Seeing UCD through the eyes of our students – to improve our students’ experience
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile There is no doubt that staff and faculty in UCD have great empathy and understanding for our students, but have you ever wondered how closely the student perspective on...
What is a Rapid Improvement Event?
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile An RIE is an approach to project delivery that enables effective and efficient multi-domain collaboration, decision-making and action through direct involvement of key stakeholders in the process. An RIE...
Agile Project Management – What I learned and what you can expect
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile I have often found myself needing to explain the difference between UCD Agile and Agile Project Management. As explained here, the Agile in UCD Agile is a reference to...
Project Managers CoP launch
By Iseult Ó Síocháin, UCD Registry Following the recent launch of the Community of Practice for Project Managers at the Work Smarter Together October event, a kick-off gathering of the group took place on...
New Community of Practice launching in January 2020!
By Fergus McAuliffe, School of Earth Sciences We are delighted to announce that a new Public Engagement Community of Practice will be officially launched on January 29th, 2020. The mission of the PE –...
UCD Estate Services ‘making better’ story: UCD Clubs and Societies booking form
By Matt Jones, UCD Estate Services UCD Clubs, UCD Societies & UCD Students’ Union (CSSU) room bookings are managed by Campus Services, UCD Estate Services. Previously, CSSU had to make bookings in person in...