Newsletter August 2018 / NewsletterArchive
· by Michael Sinnott · 17 Aug, 2018
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile August greetings from the Work Smarter Together Community of Practice. This is our 5th newsletter since their start in June 2017. We have news from the WST Summer School in...
Blog posts / How To Story / Newsletter August 2018
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is anti-solutions used for? Sometimes the solution to a problem just doesn’t come easily. Other times the solution might seem obvious – but there is good reason to...
Blog posts / CoP News / Guest Post / Newsletter August 2018 / School Managers CoP
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
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...
CoP News / Guest Post / Newsletter August 2018
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
Jimmy Muldoon, Chair, UCD Technical Development Network On 13 June 2018 the UCD Technical Development Network, in conjunction with UCD Staff Development, hosted a one-day National conference of Technical staff from Third-level institutions throughout...
Blog posts / Guest Post / Newsletter August 2018 / Project Story
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
By Anne Hallinan, UCD School of Music A key achievement as the sole administrator in the UCD School of Music in 2014 was my central role in the successful organising of a national conference...
Blog posts / Newsletter August 2018 / Project Story
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. When decisions are made by governing boards regarding the admission, progression, or graduation of students, Programme Offices/Graduate Schools submit a request to UCD Registry for changes to be made...
Blog posts / How To Story / Newsletter August 2018
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What are Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) used for? Standard Operating Procedures are step-by-step instructions for how to execute a routine task. Well defined SOPs are essential for a process...
Blog posts / Newsletter August 2018 / Project Story
· by Olga Murdoch · 17 Aug, 2018
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. Every School/College/unit in UCD goes through the process of ordering and receiving goods. Those of you who are part of teams who place a lot of orders will appreciate...
Events / Newsletter August 2018
· by Michael Sinnott · 16 Aug, 2018
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. October 2018 There will be a WST gathering in October, as last year. The Agile CoPs next gathering will be in October – more hands on practical stuff...
Blog posts / CoP News / Events / Lunch and Learn / Newsletter August 2018
· by Michael Sinnott · 16 Aug, 2018
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. We ran our first Agile CoP (Community of Practice) gathering on July 19th in a session which, as is usual, mixed theory and practice, looking at some...
Blog posts / Newsletter August 2018
· by Michael Sinnott · 16 Aug, 2018
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile. The ‘Agile Agenda’ – our plans from the summer of 2018 to the summer of 2019 – has just been through our governance layer and we would like...
Blog posts / CoP News / Events / Lunch and Learn / Newsletter August 2018
· by Michael Sinnott · 16 Aug, 2018
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...