· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Gregori Meakin, College of Arts and Humanities Office Across the University, lots of colleagues are being creative with Microsoft Excel. The Excel Learning Community emerged from the Remote Working Group as a platform...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Pencil in the dates and get ready to join us at our WST summer school on Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 July. This WST Summer School, as always, will...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Michael Garvey, BDIC Programme Officer, China Joint Colleges Office I have worked in China-facing roles for my entire UCD career, which stretches back to 2010, including in my current position as Programme and...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Jeremy Britton, USM Rollout Team Greetings Colleagues, A lot has happened in the world of the USM since our last WST Newsletter post. This post is a quick snapshot of some of the...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team The Remote Working Group was established by the USM Project Team in April 2020 in response to the move to remote working across UCD. Since setting up the...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile and Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team The Agile team is a big fan of MURAL – the online collaboration tool – we use it for all our workshops and...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The week of the 8th March saw our biennial Work Smarter Together event, in an online format. The theme this year was ‘work smart while being apart’ – we...
Announcements / Distributed Office
· by UCD Agile · 30 Mar, 2021
Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our recent Distributed Office training survey! Over the past few months, we ran a series of Distributed Office (DO) offerings which originated from the...
· by UCD Agile · 29 Mar, 2021
Our Spring training programme is up and running. We’re developing new Distributed Office sessions and will have more news on these shortly – keep an eye on this page for updates. In the meantime,...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Mar, 2021
The Unified Support Model Rollout team facilitated two workshops as part of Work Smarter Together’s “DO” Training series in December and January. DO: Ad Hoc Query Resolution focused on how best to contact those...
· by UCD Agile · 15 Mar, 2021
What a great week at WST21! A huge thank you to everyone who participated – with both presentations and posters – a great example of ‘working smart while being apart’. If you missed any...
· by UCD Agile · 19 Feb, 2021
Yellow Belt training: Monday 22nd and Thursday 25th March If you are looking for an in-depth exploration of Lean Six Sigma and have a project in mind, Yellow Belt will provide you with a good understanding...
· by UCD Agile · 11 Feb, 2021
WST21: Work smart while being apart takes place online during the week of 08-12 March 2021. We’ll have a full week of creative and engaging presentations from UCD colleagues along with some guest speakers. ...
· by UCD Agile · 13 Jan, 2021
Get involved with Work Smarter Together 2021! Work Smarter Together 2021 (WST21) will deliver a week of events during 08 – 12 March that will bring you, the UCD community, together to hear from...
· by UCD Agile · 7 Jan, 2021
As we continue our journey in the ‘Distributed Office’ – what can we do to help make sure a team or unit is clear on what it is doing? How can we make a...
· by UCD Agile · 5 Jan, 2021
Following the first round of our Distributed Office (DO) training offerings, we have added a number of new sessions. This new offering follows directly from the work of the USM Rollout Team and UCD...
Back by popular demand – a new round of Lean training takes place early in 2021. UCD staff can book a place on one of the upcoming events through the booking centre in InfoHub....
· by UCD Agile · 14 Dec, 2020
Meetings are an important and necessary part of working life – but how do we ensure our meetings do not leave participants tired, confused and without clear outcomes? No matter where you work and...
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...