Welcome to the September 2023 WST Newsletter
Welcome to the September edition of the Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘the ecology of a project’. This newsletter aims to give you an insight into what it takes to get cross functional projects...
Author: Olga Murdoch
Welcome to the June 2023 newsletter
Welcome to the Summer edition of UCD’s Work Smarter Together Newsletter – ‘A day in the life’. A key aspect of WST is about recognising and celebrating the achievements of our colleagues. We thought,...
Welcome to the December 2022 newsletter
Welcome to my first newsletter as the Director of Agile! I am four weeks into the new job as I am writing this – what an apt time for a newsletter all about change....
Facilitating Meetings for Engaged Communities of Practice
This article is aimed at anyone who finds themselves with the responsibility to run a CoP meeting, perhaps for the first time. If this is you, read on for some practical hints and tips....
WST March 2022: Lineup and Registration
This event took place from 10:30am -12:00pm on 14 March 2022. Click this link for the event recording Following on from the success of Work smart while being apart in March 2021 and Getting...
WST Summer School 2021: Sessions and resources
This year’s Work Smarter Together Summer School took place on 13th, 14th and 15th July 2021. We were delighted to welcome so many of our colleagues to the 15 sessions. You’ll find links to...
My WST21 Experience: Jean Lynch
By Jean Lynch, Counsellor, Student Counselling Services When the Work Smarter Together (WST21) invitation arrived in my inbox at the start of the year, I almost consigned it to the Trash as I have...
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...
Using Microsoft Teams for Ad-hoc Query Resolution
What needs does this meet? Sharing information; Ad-hoc query resolution; Keeping in touch; Collaborating remotely. How long will it take to set up? 10 minutes How long before I start to see the value?...
Student Experience Mapping @ WST February 2020
At WST February 2020, I will be taking the floor to talk about Student Experience Mapping. There is already lots of information available so you can go to the UCD Agile website to find...
Using a CTQ-Tree to understand ‘customer’ requirements
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile What is a CTQ Tree used for? CTQ stands for Critical to Quality. CTQs then, are the critical requirements your customers have of you, your business, your process. CTQs...
Seeing UCD through the eyes of our students – to improve our students’ experience
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile There is no doubt that staff and faculty in UCD have great empathy and understanding for our students, but have you ever wondered how closely the student perspective on...
What is a Rapid Improvement Event?
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile An RIE is an approach to project delivery that enables effective and efficient multi-domain collaboration, decision-making and action through direct involvement of key stakeholders in the process. An RIE...
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...
Welcome to the December 2018 Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the December 2018 WST newsletter and all the very best for the holiday seasons ahead. Time flies and we find ourselves about to enter the last...
WST 2019 – Information Session for Potential Contributors
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile The first information session for potential WST 2019 participants was on Tuesday 11 December. There was great energy and enthusiasm in the room that has made us even more...
Making it easier to choose what to do – PICK charts
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is a PICK chart used for? A previous post was about using affinity brainstorming to get ideas from a group of people. A PICK chart is used 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...
Upcoming training from UCD Agile
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile If you learned about the new suite of training we have on offer, you are probably wondering how you can sign up! We are delighted to announce there are...
PA Network
By Maureen Quinn, President’s Office The UCD PA Network is planning a programme of events and training to enhance our respective areas for 2019. More details will be revealed in January 2019. In the meantime, if...