· by UCD Agile · 18 May, 2021
By Aidan Curran, IT Services – Enterprise Applications Group Waffle! Hamburger! Kebab! Yes, all things you’ll be eating on your way home from your first night out post-lockdown – but also actual names that...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Elena Keany, Deputy Team Lead, Student Desk, UCD Registry The words of John Donne’s sermon No Man Is An Island were tolling loudly for me at the end of this year’s WST21 event....
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The WST Communities of Practice have been busy over the past few months. Here’s a brief round-up of news from: UCD Public Engagement Community of Practice; URMAN (UCD Research...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile One of the Agile team’s overarching aims is to empower and support our colleagues, harnessing their creativity and innovation and in the process of doing so – to help...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile and Network Lead of Lean HE Ireland This is the first Lean HE Ireland update from UCD: Lean HE Ireland now exists! (The HE is higher education). What...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Michael Sinnott, Director, UCD Agile When we began this series of ‘Remote Working’ interviews in May 2020 it was out of curiosity about how colleagues were coping with the move off campus. How...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Gregori Meakin, College of Arts and Humanities Office Across the University, lots of colleagues are being creative with Microsoft Excel. The Excel Learning Community emerged from the Remote Working Group as a platform...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Pencil in the dates and get ready to join us at our WST summer school on Tuesday 13 – Thursday 15 July. This WST Summer School, as always, will...
· by UCD Agile · 17 May, 2021
By Michael Garvey, BDIC Programme Officer, China Joint Colleges Office I have worked in China-facing roles for my entire UCD career, which stretches back to 2010, including in my current position as Programme and...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Jeremy Britton, USM Rollout Team Greetings Colleagues, A lot has happened in the world of the USM since our last WST Newsletter post. This post is a quick snapshot of some of the...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team The Remote Working Group was established by the USM Project Team in April 2020 in response to the move to remote working across UCD. Since setting up the...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile and Eimear Kelly, USM Rollout Team The Agile team is a big fan of MURAL – the online collaboration tool – we use it for all our workshops and...
· by UCD Agile · 14 May, 2021
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The week of the 8th March saw our biennial Work Smarter Together event, in an online format. The theme this year was ‘work smart while being apart’ – we...
Announcements / Distributed Office
· by UCD Agile · 30 Mar, 2021
Thank you to everyone who took the time to complete our recent Distributed Office training survey! Over the past few months, we ran a series of Distributed Office (DO) offerings which originated from the...
· by UCD Agile · 29 Mar, 2021
Our Spring training programme is up and running. We’re developing new Distributed Office sessions and will have more news on these shortly – keep an eye on this page for updates. In the meantime,...
· by UCD Agile · 24 Mar, 2021
The Unified Support Model Rollout team facilitated two workshops as part of Work Smarter Together’s “DO” Training series in December and January. DO: Ad Hoc Query Resolution focused on how best to contact those...
· by UCD Agile · 15 Mar, 2021
What a great week at WST21! A huge thank you to everyone who participated – with both presentations and posters – a great example of ‘working smart while being apart’. If you missed any...
· by UCD Agile · 19 Feb, 2021
Yellow Belt training: Monday 22nd and Thursday 25th March If you are looking for an in-depth exploration of Lean Six Sigma and have a project in mind, Yellow Belt will provide you with a good understanding...
· by UCD Agile · 11 Feb, 2021
WST21: Work smart while being apart takes place online during the week of 08-12 March 2021. We’ll have a full week of creative and engaging presentations from UCD colleagues along with some guest speakers. ...
· by UCD Agile · 13 Jan, 2021
Get involved with Work Smarter Together 2021! Work Smarter Together 2021 (WST21) will deliver a week of events during 08 – 12 March that will bring you, the UCD community, together to hear from...