Agile Community of Practice
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. We ran our first Agile CoP (Community of Practice) gathering on July 19th in a session which, as is usual, mixed theory and practice, looking at some...
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Agile Agenda Update
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. The ‘Agile Agenda’ – our plans from the summer of 2018 to the summer of 2019 – has just been through our governance layer and we would like...
WST Summer School Update
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. The Agile Summer School ran on July 17, 18 and 19, bringing colleagues together for two ‘white belt’ Lean introductory sessions, a full day ‘yellow belt’ session, a...
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...
Come join the Agile CoP!
By Amy Fox, Agile Administrator. We’re very excited to be announcing the first event for the ‘Agile Community of Practice’ which will take place on 19 July and we need YOU to join us!...
Agile Training Update
By Amy Fox, Agile Administrator. Since the beginning of 2018 we’ve had the pleasure of meeting another 135 members of the UCD community who have availed of Lean White, Yellow and Green Belt training...
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....
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...
Research Underspend – the story of a Green Belt project
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile As anyone knows who has ever put together a plan to spend money for some good reason or other, there are three ways spending goes – you spend...
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...
Congratulations UCD Green Belt Graduates
Congratulations to Richael Leahy and Stephen Manuel from UCD Finance and Sarah O’Flaherty from UCD Registry who successfully completed the Green Belt Accreditation Programme. Each graduate engaged in a 6 month project where they learned the...
Programme Orientation 2017 – What worked well for you?
Please join us for the opportunity to reflect on the programme-level activities which worked well during Orientation (Undergraduate & Graduate) this year. This is a chance to meet with colleagues and share our experiences...
Call for participation in communities of practice for technical staff
By Jimmy Muldoon, TDN Chair, Senior Technical Officer, School of Chemistry. The UCD Technical Development Network is initially working to map the University technical space with a view to supporting the development of Technical...
UCD Agile deliver their first in-house Lean Six Sigma training
By Olga Murdoch and Kim Lacey, UCD Agile. A big thank you to all those who attended our first in-house Lean Six Sigma training entitled “the Fundamentals of Lean for UCD”. The training was...
WST Summer School
Over 80 people registered for the WST Summer School on the 18 July and what a great event it was! On Tuesday we saw colleagues from across campus come together with great enthusiasm to...
Places are fill fast for the Summer School – register now before it’s too late
A few places still remain for the Summer School on the 18 July.….this is not to be missed, so register now before it’s too late! The fundamentals of Lean is already full but a...
Introducing UCD’s Continuous Improvement Leads
A short Agile news item from the support units. In May 2017 some of the largest support units were asked to nominate what Agile calls ‘continuous improvement leads’ (CILs). The role has three...