Register now: WST CoP event 23 October
The next WST CoP event will take place at 2pm on Monday, 23 October in the Moore Auditorium, O’Brien Centre for Science. We are delighted to announce that Sean Paul Teeling from the UCD...
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Graduate Programme Orientation Workshop – Communities of Practice – 02 October 17
Following up on a very engaging and well attended workshop organised by the Programme Orientation Communities of Practice in July 2017 which focused on general Programme Orientation delivered at a local level, we are...
Call for participation in communities of practice for technical staff
By Jimmy Muldoon, TDN Chair, Senior Technical Officer, School of Chemistry. The UCD Technical Development Network is initially working to map the University technical space with a view to supporting the development of Technical...
Process Mapping 101
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? “What is a process?” I hear you ask… A process is a series of actions taken to achieve a desired result. A process...
The power of asking “Why?”
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? The 5 Why’s is a very simple technique to help you get to the root cause of a problem so that you can...
Local Programme Orientation Community of Practice: How it began
By Niall Dennehy, BA Student Progression Manager. Following a workshop on Tuesday 2nd May of this year that focused on Orientation timetabling, Erin O’Malley, Irene Rose and I began to discuss how orientation worked...
Local Programme Orientation Community of Practice (CoP): Our Story and What’s Happening Next
by Erin O’Malley, Programme Manager, UCD Engineering & Architecture Programme Office. Local Programme Orientation CoP Workshop – 18 July 2017 Within a number of weeks of informally coming together as a group with a common interest,...
Welcome to History
by Dr Sarah Feehan, School of History. The School of History participated in the ‘Programme orientation – more than just the week before term’ workshop which offered us the opportunity to discuss our approach to...
EdTECx in action – Book now
by Olivia Jackman, IT Services. EdTECx in action is in its third year and in tandem with EdTECx talks (which takes place in Spring), it is becoming a fixture in the UCD calendar. This year EdTECx in...
Save the date: 23 October 2017 for the next WST CoP event
The next WST CoP event will take place in the afternoon on 23 October and it is not to missed! The line-up promises an exciting mix of speakers and much like the WST Summer...
UCD Agile deliver their first in-house Lean Six Sigma training
By Olga Murdoch and Kim Lacey, UCD Agile. A big thank you to all those who attended our first in-house Lean Six Sigma training entitled “the Fundamentals of Lean for UCD”. The training was...
GIS and its potential for UCD
By Assoc Professor Gerald Mills, Head of School, School of Geography. A great deal of information that UCD gathers contains valuable geographic information that is rarely used for planning purposes. Geographic Information Systems (GIS)...
Welcome to the August 2017 WST CoP Newsletter
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. Welcome to the second edition of our newsletter. We are delighted with the feedback received on our first edition in June 2017. Not only did you enjoy reading...
Technical development networking event: Invitation to attend on Tuesday 29th August
By Jimmy Muldoon, TDN Chair, Senior Technical Officer, School of Chemistry. The Technical Development Network (TDN) is a UCD group which, with the assistance of HR and other affiliated units (such as Agile!), assists...
WST Summer School
Over 80 people registered for the WST Summer School on the 18 July and what a great event it was! On Tuesday we saw colleagues from across campus come together with great enthusiasm to...
Places are fill fast for the Summer School – register now before it’s too late
A few places still remain for the Summer School on the 18 July.….this is not to be missed, so register now before it’s too late! The fundamentals of Lean is already full but a...
Introducing UCD’s Continuous Improvement Leads
A short Agile news item from the support units. In May 2017 some of the largest support units were asked to nominate what Agile calls ‘continuous improvement leads’ (CILs). The role has three...
What is a Community of Practice?
What is a Work Smarter Together community of practice? It is a network of enthusiasts who share and create knowledge about a shared interest area. Given the context is the work we do in...
Ag obair as láimhe a céile! Working hand in hand!
By Clár Ní Bhuachalla, Bord na Gaeilge UCD Irish Language Officer. Anyone who sat leaving certificate Irish might recall the term ‘seanfhocal’ or proverb. A lot of these ‘seanfhocail’ pertain to the weather, to the...
SPARC: Working together to make UCD a better place
By Sorcha Mulcahy, Deputy Director of UCD Career Development Centre. The SPARC (Supporting Partnerships And Realising Change) programme enables UCD staff and students to work together on projects that make UCD and/or the surrounding community a...