Smarter Furniture Reuse in UCD

By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead

The furniture reuse programme is part of a bigger scheme within UCD Estate Services to divert furniture from landfill. To reduce the carbon footprint of UCD and reduce the costs incurred by buying new furniture, the objective of this scheme is to maximise the reuse, repurpose (and fixing) and recycling of furniture while minimising the …

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‘Leveraging your institution’s support’ - the October CoP Event

By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile

How do you leverage the support and encouragement UCD provides when you are looking to make the changes you see would be helpful in your area? On 23 October ninety of us from across the campus had the pleasure of hosting John Maxwell, of the NTMA, and Sean Paul Teeling, of the UCD School …

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Agile Training Survey October 2017

So you do some Agile training – then what?  This is what we asked our 216 colleagues from across the campus who had taken part in one of our three Lean Six Sigma training courses between March 2017 and April 2017. Read more.

Wishing the December 2017 Green Belt Group a successful project journey

By Nuria Corcoran

Two new and two continuing Green Belt projects are due to start their Green Belt training with SQT in December.  As part of the training the participants will learn to successfully launch a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Project.  UCD Finance, UCD Registry and UCD College of Social Sciences and Law will be represented at the training. …

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Lean improvements for UCD's curriculum support

By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead

When it comes to the UCD Programme Development, Approval and Review Framework (PDARF) process, the institutional demand for change was quite low level - people had come to accept the inefficiencies of the paper based forms. The Curriculum team in UCD Registry newly took over the PDARF process and faced a steep learning curve, but …

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CoP - UCD PA Network

By Maureen Quinn, Sinead Kelly, Sinead McNally, Catherine Ryan

The UCD PA Network was launched on Friday 20 October to provide support, share information and explore opportunities to develop as a group and individually. Our primary goal is to create a strong, supportive network and recognition of us as a group within the UCD community.  It is an opportunity to review our …

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Save the Date - Work Smarter Together Event - 20 February 2018

By Nuria Corcoran

After a very successful event in October we are planning a follow on event on February 20th.  Our attendee survey asked for project examples from UCD so the session will have a UCD focus. Our very active Communities of Practice will also be holding events on the February 22nd so keep an eye out for details on …

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What is Kano Analysis?

By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile

Before we start… ‘customer’ I always want to make sure we are clear on what we mean by ‘customer’. A customer is someone whose needs you understand, and in relation to which you understand what you have to offer, and it is in the dialogue between what they need and what you have to …

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