· by UCD Agile · 26 Aug, 2020
By Sarah Butler, Curriculum Team, UCD Registry This Summer, my team were faced with the task of figuring out how to best gather information from Schools and Colleges during the busy registration preparation period...
Distributed Office / Newsletter August 2020 / Project Story
· by UCD Agile · 26 Aug, 2020
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team Ahead of the new academic year when everything work-wise is both familiar and constantly changing, we wanted to take time to reflect on how we, as a University, have...
This year’s Work Smarter Together Summer School is taking place on 14th, 15th and 16th July 2020! We are very excited to reveal this year’s line-up below. Due to high demand we have added...
Newsletter May 2020 / Project Story / USM
· by UCD Agile · 27 May, 2020
By Amy McDonald and Jeremy Britton, UCD Agile In the last WST Newsletter we wrote about how we had started using Microsoft Teams to support service delivery continuity across the offices operating the Unified...
How To Story / Newsletter May 2020
· by UCD Agile · 27 May, 2020
By Catherine Mc Donnell, UCD Registry – Administrative Services For support queries between students and Student Desk Instructions for Students Go to https://hangouts.google.com/ and login with your UCD email details Click Message Add the...
Blog posts / Guest Post / Newsletter May 2020 / Project Story
· by UCD Agile · 27 May, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile With the campus in Belfield now largely inhabited by locals out for their lockdown exercise, what about the people who are not there? How is remote working… working? I...
Blog posts / Events / Newsletter May 2020
· by UCD Agile · 27 May, 2020
By Caitriona Devery, UCD Earth Institute The Earth Institute have regular events that are very popular with researchers across UCD. Our main event is a weekly coffee morning which features a short research presentation...
How To Story / Lean / Newsletter May 2020
· by UCD Agile · 27 May, 2020
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile Many of us will be working from home for many weeks to come due to Covid-19. We moved our services and training online to support UCD colleagues during these...
Newsletter May 2020 / NewsletterArchive
· by UCD Agile · 26 May, 2020
Welcome to Week 11 in the Big Brother House… sorry, my bedroom… rather, my home office… eh, my remote working facility. We are in the ‘new normal’ now, though what an unfamiliar, unpredictable and...
How To Story / Newsletter May 2020
· by UCD Agile · 20 May, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile We are always looking for good tools to use to help working in the ‘new normal’ and this piece is about a way of working together – the Lightning...
· by UCD Agile · 18 May, 2020
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile Join us for a great opportunity to network and learn new skills at the Work Smarter Together virtual Summer School events via Zoom. There will be a mixture of...
Blog posts / Newsletter May 2020 / Project Story
· by UCD Agile · 18 May, 2020
By Niamh Nestor, School of Veterinary Medicine & Catriona Keane, Student Advisers At UCD Purl Jam, we really wanted to keep our craft meet-ups going during the lockdown, and they continue to be a...
Newsletter May 2020 / Project Story / Smart Cards
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2020
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile We are truly inspired by how our UCD colleagues come together (virtually) to embrace the new normal. Take a moment to check out the Work Smarter Together Smart Cards...
UCD Agile offers remote training in Lean Six Sigma to all UCD employees. Lean methodology is a practical approach to improving processes, reducing waste and boosting customer satisfaction. UCD staff can book a place on...
UCD Agile are now offering Lean training online to expand our support while working at distance. Last week, we ran our very first online Yellow Belt training and participants were really pleased with the...
Newsletter March 2020 / Project Story
· by UCD Agile · 25 Mar, 2020
By Caroline Mangan, UCD Global The intersection between climate change and international education is becoming an increasingly important area of discussion. Indeed, the UCD Strategy 2020-2024 Rising to the Future identifies sustainability as its first...
Newsletter March 2020 / Project Story
· by UCD Agile · 25 Mar, 2020
By Bernadeta Kieromin, UCD Agile We all know good ideas come along all the time in all shapes and sizes and help people solve problems in daily work. A Work Smarter Together Smart Card...
Newsletter March 2020 / Project Story
· by UCD Agile · 25 Mar, 2020
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile At a higher education conference last summer I came across a change management framework developed by a group called Prosci (https://www.prosci.com/). Prosci stood out because so many of the...
How To Story / Newsletter March 2020
· by UCD Agile · 25 Mar, 2020
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile Working remotely is new to most of us and it is fair to say we are all still finding our feet. Over the past few days, I spoke to...
CoP News / Newsletter March 2020 / School Managers CoP
· by UCD Agile · 24 Mar, 2020
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Community of Practice for School Managers is continuing to contact each other, to discuss the developing challenges in the unique circumstances UCD now finds...