Newsletter November 2020 / NewsletterArchive
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to our November slice of UCD life – tales from the ‘collaboration and creativity’ front. The autumnal mists are fading into winter evenings, thoughts of Christmas lights...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile UCD’s first nine Lean Practitioners were presented with their Certificates of Achievement by the Registrar and Deputy president at last October’s WST event in The Fitzgerald Chamber in UCD’s Student...
CoP News / Newsletter November 2020
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Marian O’Connor, Senior Project Manager, Student Advisers Integrating project management and change management was the focus of the recent Project Management, Community of Practice Session hosted by Angelo McNeive, of Stepstone Consulting. ...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
To find out more about the Student Experience Mapping project, I chatted to Olga Murdoch recently. JA: I’m a complete newcomer to the concept of Student Experience Mapping, I’d love to find out more...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Gregori Meakin, Arts & Humanities Desk The Excel Learning Community is an initiative to unlock the potential in the data, reports, and processes we use day-to-day, and the community that apply them –...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile The next big University-wide Work Smarter Together event will take place on Wednesday 10 March 2021. At the heart of these sessions, since the first in 2014, has been...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The WST October 2020 Event October was a busy month in Agile, with one more of the many ‘firsts’ of 2020 happening on 22nd October when we ran our...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Nov, 2020
By Jeremy Britton, Project Manager – Unified Support Model “Meetings are a great and necessary part of office life…” This is how Michael opened our first workshop around the theme of Streamlining Meetings. Gauging...
Distributed Office / Newsletter November 2020
· by UCD Agile · 23 Nov, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile Like all good ideas, at the heart of the ‘Distributed Office’ concept is a story… the story of a journey… the people that shape it… a story we all...
· by UCD Agile · 23 Nov, 2020
By Jeremy Britton, Project Manager – Unified Support Model With the move to remote working the focus is often placed on the working itself. A lot of the community endeavours – coffee mornings and...
· by UCD Agile · 23 Nov, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile Jean McQuillan greeted me from the attic of her home, with a glorious photo of the Belfield lake as her Zoom backdrop. With my own Zoom image of Monet...
We’re excited to announce a series of new training offerings under the banner of our Distributed Office theme. The recent combined efforts of the USM Rollout Team and UCD Agile has identified specific needs...
· by UCD Agile · 4 Nov, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, Director UCD Agile Some of us worked in open plan offices, some in smaller rooms, some out behind counters, some in offices of our own. They were all ‘the office’ –...