Here is what happened at the WST Summer School
Firstly, thank you for attending the WST Summer School in July 2019. With 8 sessions to choose from, this three day event attracted 170 people from all over the University. Check out the gallery...
Category: Events
WST Summer School 2019 event lineup announced!
The UCD WST Summer School is taking place on 16th, 17th and 18th July 2019. We are delighted to announce the lineup for the Work Smarter Together Summer School 2019. This year you can...
WST Summer School 16th, 17th and 18th July 2019
We couldn’t wait to share the good news: The Work Smarter Together Summer School is back! Our annual WST Summer School event is taking place here at UCD Belfield campus on 16th, 17th and...
WST 2019 survey analysis
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile We got a great response to the WST 2019 survey we ran the week after our March event. The infographic shows the high level stats, all of which...
Agile upcoming training
By Bernadeta Kieromin, Agile Coordinator Choose the training that suits you: Yellow Belt Yellow Belt (YB) training provides the participants with knowledge of Lean so you can be an effective members of improvement teams,...
WST 2019 – Information Session for Potential Contributors
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile The first information session for potential WST 2019 participants was on Tuesday 11 December. There was great energy and enthusiasm in the room that has made us even more...
Upcoming training from UCD Agile
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile If you learned about the new suite of training we have on offer, you are probably wondering how you can sign up! We are delighted to announce there are...
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...
WST event October 2018: ‘The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives’
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile We had a wonderful turnout of over 70 people at our October WST event ‘The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives’ which took place on Tuesday 30 October in the Moore...
Register Now: The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives
The next WST CoP event will take place at 2pm on Tuesday, 30 October in the Moore Auditorium, O’Brien Centre for Science. As well as an update from UCD Agile, we are delighted to...
What to watch out for…
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. October 2018 There will be a WST gathering in October, as last year. The Agile CoPs next gathering will be in October – more hands on practical stuff...
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...
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...
Work Smarter Together Summer School – 17, 18 & 19 July 2018
By Amy Fox, Agile Administrator. The next WST CoP event will be a bumper 3 day Summer School, taking place on 17, 18 and 19 July. Following on from the success of our 2017...
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....
Programme Orienteering – Supporting the choices students make through their programmes
By Irene Rose Long after local programme orientation is over, incoming students continue to face choices to be made through their programme; these choices may continue over weeks, months or even years. Supporting students...
Work Smarter Together – 20 February 2018
The first Work Smarter Together Event of 2018 will take place in the Moore Auditorium, O’Brien Science Centre on Tuesday 20 February – sandwich lunch at 1pm, main session starts at 1.30, some CoP events...
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...
‘Person-Centred Culture of Care’ key message from 5th Annual Mater Lean Symposium
By Nuria Corcoran The 5th Annual Lean Symposium – Lean Six Sigma for Person-Centred Culture of Care – took place on 23rd November and showcased successful examples of “Person Centred” process changes delivered in the...
Programme Orientation Community of Practice (CoP)
By Irene Rose and Annette Patchett A desire to make orientation a great experience for in-coming students is what our Programme Orientation Community of Practice members have in common. Since we started up in...