What is a WHY Statement and why should you care?
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald What is a WHY? Every team in UCD knows WHAT they do. They are fully aware of their day-to-day tasks and what’s required to carry them out. In...
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WST 2019 – After the Event
Work Smarter Together 2019 ran on March 14, with pre-event workshops on March 13, and you can find all the details of the event’s programme here on the WST 2019 website. Update: All posters...
WST 2019 – Registration and news
Registration is now closed for Work Smarter Together 2019 (WST 2019). Welcome to your connection point for WST 2019. Check back here for news and updates, with more info on the main...
Welcome to the December 2018 Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the December 2018 WST newsletter and all the very best for the holiday seasons ahead. Time flies and we find ourselves about to enter the last...
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...
Making it easier to choose what to do – PICK charts
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is a PICK chart used for? A previous post was about using affinity brainstorming to get ideas from a group of people. A PICK chart is used to...
How to put your Lean training to use using an A3 template
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the A3 used for? In Lean, the A3 (yes, named after a piece of paper larger than A4) report gives you both a problem solving process and...
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...
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...
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...
Agile’s October 2018 Training Survey
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile What happens after training with UCD Agile – is the training used, what is used in what way, what helps and what impedes? We use our annual October survey...
Agile’s new training
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile In November 2018 UCD Agile launched three new training sessions and began teaching an enhanced version of the established Yellow training. Lots of feedback and thinking went into these...
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...
Welcome to the August 2018 WST Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile August greetings from the Work Smarter Together Community of Practice. This is our 5th newsletter since their start in June 2017. We have news from the WST Summer School 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...