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’ –...
We had three UCD Agile presentations included in the Lean HE Global Festival which took place online from 19-23 October 2020. If you missed this event, or would like to see the presentations again...
The theme for our 2020 WST October event was Getting Things Done in the Distributed Office. The first session, titled ‘Tales from the Distributed Office’, included presentations from colleagues from Arts and Humanities Desk,...
· by UCD Agile · 14 Oct, 2020
What needs this meets: Ad-hoc query resolution; Keeping in touch; Collaborating remotely. How long will it take to set up? 10 minutes How long before I start to see the value? Immediate What do...
Agile is delighted to support the Lean HE Global Festival which takes place online from 19-23 October. We have three presentations included in the line-up: Wednesday October 21st at 14.30: Remit Mapping – Just...
We are holding our regular October Work Smarter Together event on Thursday 22 October. Our theme for this year’s virtual event is: Getting things done in the Distributed Office. We will have two sessions,...
The October 22 Work Smarter Together event is getting close but, in the spirit of living with emerging circumstances, details are still being finalised. Booking for the event will open on Monday 28 September...
UCD Agile will continue to offer online Lean training to all employees this Autumn. Lean methodology is a practical approach to improving processes, reducing waste and boosting customer satisfaction. There are a number of...
Events / Newsletter August 2020
· by UCD Agile · 26 Aug, 2020
By Dr Niamh Nestor, Student Adviser, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine Before the campus closure in March, a group of Vet staff members used to meet every Wednesday morning at 8am in one of the...
· by UCD Agile · 26 Aug, 2020
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team On Wednesday 15 July we ran a session looking at Re(Evaluating) Remit in the New Normal. During this session we brought colleagues from across the University together to...