DO: Where are we now? Resources
As we continue our journey in the ‘Distributed Office’ – what can we do to help make sure a team or unit is clear on what it is doing? How can we make a...
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New Year – New Distributed Office Training sessions!
Following the first round of our Distributed Office (DO) training offerings, we have added a number of new sessions. This new offering follows directly from the work of the USM Rollout Team and UCD...
Lean training for 2021
Back by popular demand – a new round of Lean training takes place early in 2021. UCD staff can book a place on one of the upcoming events through the booking centre in InfoHub....
DO: Streamlining Meetings – Resources
Meetings are an important and necessary part of working life – but how do we ensure our meetings do not leave participants tired, confused and without clear outcomes? No matter where you work and...
WST21: Work smart while being apart
WST21 aims to deliver a week of events that will bring you, the UCD community, together to hear from each other as well as some guest speakers about what it takes to “work smart...
Welcome to the November Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to our November slice of UCD life – tales from the ‘collaboration and creativity’ front. The autumnal mists are fading into winter evenings, thoughts of Christmas lights...
2020 Lean Practitioner Update
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile UCD’s first nine Lean Practitioners were presented with their Certificates of Achievement by the Registrar and Deputy president at last October’s WST event in The Fitzgerald Chamber in UCD’s Student...
Project Management – Community of Practice
By Marian O’Connor, Senior Project Manager, Student Advisers Integrating project management and change management was the focus of the recent Project Management, Community of Practice Session hosted by Angelo McNeive, of Stepstone Consulting. ...
Student Experience Mapping
To find out more about the Student Experience Mapping project, I chatted to Olga Murdoch recently. JA: I’m a complete newcomer to the concept of Student Experience Mapping, I’d love to find out more...
Excel Learning Community
By Gregori Meakin, Arts & Humanities Desk The Excel Learning Community is an initiative to unlock the potential in the data, reports, and processes we use day-to-day, and the community that apply them –...
WST Event March 2021 – Save the Date!
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile The next big University-wide Work Smarter Together event will take place on Wednesday 10 March 2021. At the heart of these sessions, since the first in 2014, has been...
WST and Lean HE – a recap on October’s events
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile The WST October 2020 Event October was a busy month in Agile, with one more of the many ‘firsts’ of 2020 happening on 22nd October when we ran our...
Streamlining Meetings – Just DO it
By Jeremy Britton, Project Manager – Unified Support Model “Meetings are a great and necessary part of office life…” This is how Michael opened our first workshop around the theme of Streamlining Meetings. Gauging...
The Distributed Office – the journey so far…
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile Like all good ideas, at the heart of the ‘Distributed Office’ concept is a story… the story of a journey… the people that shape it… a story we all...
Multicultural Mind Trips: Keeping a community connected during Remote Working
By Jeremy Britton, Project Manager – Unified Support Model With the move to remote working the focus is often placed on the working itself. A lot of the community endeavours – coffee mornings and...
Remote Working Stories: Jean McQuillan, Student Recruitment
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile Jean McQuillan greeted me from the attic of her home, with a glorious photo of the Belfield lake as her Zoom backdrop. With my own Zoom image of Monet...
Distributed Office Training
We’re excited to announce a series of new training offerings under the banner of our Distributed Office theme. The recent combined efforts of the USM Rollout Team and UCD Agile has identified specific needs...
What is the ‘Distributed Office’?
By Michael Sinnott, Director UCD Agile Some of us worked in open plan offices, some in smaller rooms, some out behind counters, some in offices of our own. They were all ‘the office’ –...
Agile @ Lean HE Global Festival: Presentations and videos
We had three UCD Agile presentations included in the Lean HE Global Festival which took place online from 19-23 October 2020. If you missed this event, or would like to see the presentations again...
Tales from the Distributed Office: Presentations and videos
The theme for our 2020 WST October event was Getting Things Done in the Distributed Office. The first session, titled ‘Tales from the Distributed Office’, included presentations from colleagues from Arts and Humanities Desk,...