Welcome to the June 2018 Newsletter

Welcome to the June WST newsletter

By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile

Welcome to the June 2018 WST newsletter – lots of content keeping you up to date on some of what has been happening in the UCD ‘creativity and collaboration’ space that WST lives in. The main news today is the WST summer school we are planning for July, following on from last year’s successful …

WST Spotlight

Making team meetings more effective using visual management

By Audrey Dempsey, Manager of Business eLearning, UCD College of Business.

Audrey Dempsey is the manager of the eLearning team in UCD College of Business. In this post, Audrey shares her teams story of using Visual Management as a means to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of team meetings.

We support teaching and learning within the College of Business by …

Community news

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 courses.Take a look at the graph to get a better idea of the numbers of staff who have availed of each type of training since 2016. …

Presentations from February 2018 event - your continuous improvement journeys

By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead.

On Tuesday 20 February, 9 continuous improvement journeys were shared and 9 journeys just beginning were introduced. The presentations were very well received by the audience on the day. Due to popular demand we are now sharing these presentations with you. Click on the images below to access each presentation. Jenny Doyle from UCD Access …

Continuous Improvement

Green Belt project update: OBRSS II

By Dimitrios-Stravos Kapetankis, Research Systems Analyst, UCD Research and Innovation.

Research activity is critical to our reputation as a leading international university. The University recognises that commitment to excellent research builds UCD’s reputation. We also recognise that many of the day-to-day costs of research activity are not covered by research grants. In recognition of this, we have developed the Output-Based Research …

Communities of practice

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! The Agile CoP was launched by Michael Sinnott at our WST event in February 2018 Perhaps you have been trained in Lean Six Sigma and wish …

Upcoming events

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 Summer School, it is certainly not to be missed! The line-up promises an exciting mix of speakers, Lean training, interactive workshops and COP events. The WST …

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 are bubbling up, and the route from now to then is being laid out. In March 2017 we saw over 400 colleagues from the across the …

Tools and templates

How to use visual management to transform your team meetings

By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead.

What is visual management used for? Visual management is a lean approach to working where visual aids are used to manage operation and performance. Visual management tools can appear in many guises, but the one we are focussing on in this post is the visual management board (team board) as a means to improving team …

Brainstorming and organising ideas from groups

By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead.

What is an affinity diagram used for? An affinity diagram is a tool that gathers large amounts of language data (ideas, opinions, issues) and organises them into groupings based on their natural relationships. The affinity process is often used to group ideas generated by brainstorming. Doing the activity in silence ensures that all opinions are …

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