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...
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...
Newsletter November 2017 / Uncategorized
· by Olga Murdoch · 29 Nov, 2017
By Nuria Corcoran Two new and two continuing Green Belt projects are due to start their Green Belt training with SQT in December. As part of the training the participants will learn to successfully...
CoP News / Newsletter November 2017 / Uncategorized
· by UCD Agile · 29 Nov, 2017
By Maureen Quinn, Sinead Kelly, Sinead McNally, Catherine Ryan The UCD PA Network was launched on Friday 20 October to provide support, share information and explore opportunities to develop as a group and individually. Our primary...
· by UCD Agile · 29 Nov, 2017
So you do some Agile training – then what? This is what we asked our 216 colleagues from across the campus who had taken part in one of our three Lean Six Sigma training...
Events / Newsletter November 2017 / Uncategorized
· by UCD Agile · 29 Nov, 2017
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...
Newsletter November 2017 / Symposium / Uncategorized
· by UCD Agile · 29 Nov, 2017
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...
CoP News / Events / Newsletter November 2017
· by UCD Agile · 28 Nov, 2017
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...
Blog posts / Newsletter November 2017 / Project Story
· by Olga Murdoch · 28 Nov, 2017
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...
Newsletter November 2017 / Uncategorized
· by UCD Agile · 28 Nov, 2017
By Nuria Corcoran Upcoming Training: Fundamentals of Lean for UCD 04 December 1/2 day session course full Yellow Belt 16 January Full day session spaces available Yellow Belt 17 January Full day session spaces...
Events / Newsletter November 2017 / Uncategorized
· by Olga Murdoch · 28 Nov, 2017
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile How do you leverage the support and encouragement UCD provides when you are looking to make the changes you see would be helpful in your area? On 23...
Blog posts / Newsletter November 2017 / Project Story
· by Olga Murdoch · 28 Nov, 2017
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...
How To Story / Newsletter November 2017
· by Olga Murdoch · 28 Nov, 2017
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Before we start… ‘customer’ I always want to make sure we are clear on what we mean by ‘customer’… and in what context we use this word. The...
How To Story / Newsletter November 2017
· by Olga Murdoch · 28 Nov, 2017
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? A SIPOC is a diagram with five columns that serves as a high-level illustration of a process and its’ scope. SIPOC is an...
Blog posts / CoP News / Newsletter November 2017
· by Olga Murdoch · 28 Nov, 2017
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...
CoP News / Events / Uncategorized
· by UCD Agile · 6 Nov, 2017
Following on from an engaging initial UCD PA network meeting in October we would like to invite you to a follow-on workshop facilitated by UCD Agile on Tuesday 21st November from 0930-1100 in UCD Agile, Ardmore...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Oct, 2017
John Maxwell from the NTMA and Sean Paul Teeling from the UCD School of Nursing & Health Systems and the Mater Lean Academy attracted a superb turnout at yesterday’s ‘Leveraging your Institution’s Support’ in...
Announcements / Blog posts / Lean
· by UCD Agile · 20 Oct, 2017
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...
Announcements / Blog posts / CoP News / Events
· by UCD Agile · 16 Oct, 2017
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...
