Activity Based Working in Ardmore House
By Maureen Quinn, President’s Office You may have read about the Ardmore House Activity Based Working project in the 02 November President’s Bulletin. If not, you can access that bulletin here, and the ABW...
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Save the date for the next WST Event – 22 October 2020
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Hot on the heels of the WST Summer School we are delighted to let you know that WST’s annual October event will be running on Thursday 22 October from...
Agile Project Management – What I learned and what you can expect
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile I have often found myself needing to explain the difference between UCD Agile and Agile Project Management. As explained here, the Agile in UCD Agile is a reference to...
How to put your Lean training to use using an A3 template
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the A3 used for? In Lean, the A3 (yes, named after a piece of paper larger than A4) report gives you both a problem solving process and...
Agile’s October 2018 Training Survey
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile What happens after training with UCD Agile – is the training used, what is used in what way, what helps and what impedes? We use our annual October survey...
WST 19: Our people, shaping a better future – call for participation
Work Smarter Together 2019 (WST ’19), Thursday, 14 March is an exciting UCD-wide event dedicated to celebrating our creativity, innovation and collaboration, and this year’s theme is “Our people, shaping a better future”. In...
Register Now: The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives
The next WST CoP event will take place at 2pm on Tuesday, 30 October in the Moore Auditorium, O’Brien Centre for Science. As well as an update from UCD Agile, we are delighted to...
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...
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...
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...
Programme Orienteering – Supporting the choices students make through their programmes
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...
Work Smarter Together – 20 February 2018
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...
CoP – UCD PA Network
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...
Agile Training Survey October 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...
Save the Date – Work Smarter Together Event – 20 February 2018
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...
‘Person-Centred Culture of Care’ key message from 5th Annual Mater Lean Symposium
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...
Programme Orientation Community of Practice (CoP)
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...