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Welcome to the August 2018 Newsletter
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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 July, project stories, skills ideas and more. This is a chance to see some of what is happening across the campus. Apart from the newsletters we … Read more. |
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 (Society for Musicology of Ireland), and an international conference (Music, Marxism and the Frankfurt School). I was the primary facilitator between the conference organisations/organisers and conference … Read more. |
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 lunch’n’learn and the first meeting of the Agile Community of Practice. We had 120 sign-ups, some folks attending more than one session. The timing of this … Read more. |
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 to give you a flavour of what we will be doing over the next year. UCD Agile is guided and directed by a steering committee chaired … Read more. |
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 how this seemingly simple process can become complex and burdensome for all those involved. Last November, I worked with the operations team in Access and Lifelong … Read more. |
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 to the student record as appropriate. Examples include when a student changes their major or applies for a retrospective leave of absence. To date, this process … Read more. |
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 real issues participants brought to the session, using Lean’s A3 problem solving technique. So the session was a practical one – using Lean techniques to deal … Read more. |
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 increase the resources and skills of all Managers of Schools. There will be a launch at the end of August, and a workshop in November. We … Read more. |
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 Ireland. Three concurrent lecture streams were held in the UCD Health Science Building, on the themes of Technical matters, Professional/Personal Development and Health and Well-being. A … Read more. |
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 and the opportunity to connect up with colleagues who Lean the same way you do... Autumn/winter 2018 Preparations for WST 2019 November 2018 WST newsletter March … Read more. |
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 question if it would work in reality. When we don't know for certain what the right solution is, anti-solutions provides us with a way to think … Read more. |
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 to run smoothly, consistently. By following the instructions every time, we can be confident in the outcome of the process and improve the experience of those … Read more. |
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