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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
Work Smarter Together 2019
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile A date to put in your diary for after Christmas(!)… Work Smarter Together will take place again on 13 and 14 March 2019. Planning has already begun, ideas...
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...
Welcome to the June WST newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the June 2018 WST newsletter – lots of content keeping you up to date on some of what has been happening in the UCD ‘creativity and...
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....