PA Network
By Maureen Quinn, President’s Office The UCD PA Network is planning a programme of events and training to enhance our respective areas for 2019. More details will be revealed in January 2019. In the meantime, if...
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Technical Development Network
By Jimmy Muldoon The UCD Technical Development Network in association with the UK group HEaTED is running a Network Meeting for Third Level technical staff, on the topic “Technical Careers – Making a Successful...
Community of Practice for School Managers
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Community of Practice for School Managers commenced meeting during the 2018/19 Autumn semester. Initial meetings have covered both operational and strategic issues, and the...
Introduction of a Chemical Management System in the Food Science Laboratory
By Sabine Harrison, School of Agriculture and Food Science I am a food and nutrition technologist in the School of Agriculture and Food Science. Having completed my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training in...
USM Rollout – the story so far
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald Phase 1 of the rollout of the Unified Support Model (USM) began in October 2018. Since then we have made great progress, working with the first four offices...
WST 19: Our people, shaping a better future – call for participation
Work Smarter Together 2019 (WST ’19), Thursday, 14 March is an exciting UCD-wide event dedicated to celebrating our creativity, innovation and collaboration, and this year’s theme is “Our people, shaping a better future”. In...
Reverse brainstorming with antisolutions
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is anti-solutions used for? Sometimes the solution to a problem just doesn’t come easily. Other times the solution might seem obvious – but there is good reason to...
Introducing the School Managers Group
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The next and newest CoP group will be a School Managers Group. Drawing on the expertise of all School Managers, the Group will aim to...
Update from the Technical Development Network
Jimmy Muldoon, Chair, UCD Technical Development Network On 13 June 2018 the UCD Technical Development Network, in conjunction with UCD Staff Development, hosted a one-day National conference of Technical staff from Third-level institutions throughout...
Sharing best practices approaches to organising a conference
By Anne Hallinan, UCD School of Music A key achievement as the sole administrator in the UCD School of Music in 2014 was my central role in the successful organising of a national conference...
Green Belt Update: Student Delegated Authority Decisions Project
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. When decisions are made by governing boards regarding the admission, progression, or graduation of students, Programme Offices/Graduate Schools submit a request to UCD Registry for changes to be made...
How To Create Standard Operating Procedures
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) used for? Standard Operating Procedures are step-by-step instructions for how to execute a routine task. Well defined SOPs are essential for a process...
Standards for Ordering and Receiving Goods
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. Every School/College/unit in UCD goes through the process of ordering and receiving goods. Those of you who are part of teams who place a lot of orders will appreciate...
How to use visual management to transform your team meetings
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is visual management used for? Visual management is a lean approach to working where visual aids are used to manage operation and performance. Visual management tools can appear...
Green Belt project update: OBRSS II
By Dimitrios-Stavros Kapetanakis, Research Systems Analyst, UCD Research and Innovation Research activity is critical to our reputation as a leading international university. The University recognises that commitment to excellent research builds UCD’s reputation. We...
Brainstorming and organising ideas from groups
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is an affinity diagram used for? An affinity diagram is a tool that gathers large amounts of language data (ideas, opinions, issues) and organises them into groupings based...
Making team meetings more effective using visual management
By Audrey Dempsey, Manager of Business eLearning, UCD College of Business. Audrey Dempsey is the manager of the eLearning team in UCD College of Business. In this post, Audrey shares her teams story of...
Presentations from February 2018 event – your continuous improvement journeys
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. On Tuesday 20 February, 9 continuous improvement journeys were shared and 9 journeys just beginning were introduced. The presentations were very well received by the audience on the day....
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...
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...