Pandemic Yoga in the Vet School
By Dr Niamh Nestor, Student Adviser, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine Before the campus closure in March, a group of Vet staff members used to meet every Wednesday morning at 8am in one of the...
Category: Newsletter August 2020
(Re)Evaluating Remit in the New Normal
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team On Wednesday 15 July we ran a session looking at Re(Evaluating) Remit in the New Normal. During this session we brought colleagues from across the University together to...
Unified Support Model Showcase – Video Launch
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team The Unified Support Model has now been active (and growing!) for two years. During this time we have always tried to take a step back to acknowledge the...
Welcome to the August Newsletter
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Welcome to the WST newsletter and month six of ‘is this really the new normal?’ If blistering summer sunshine usually means students are sitting exams somewhere (not this...
Agile Training Update
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile From March this year all our training has been delivered online and has been well received by the UCD staff and faculty who have attended. With the next couple...
USM Remote Working Group Update
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team In previous WST Newsletters we wrote about how we had started using Microsoft Teams to support service delivery continuity across the offices operating the Unified Support Model, and...
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...
Embracing Online Working: Three Ways UCD Careers Network Discovered Hidden Opportunities
By Megan O’Neill, Team Lead, UCD Careers Network Since the closure of all universities in Ireland in mid-March, UCD Careers Network has like other units on campus been propelled into a new way of...
Becoming a Lean Practitioner during COVID-19 – Systems Biology Ireland (SBI)
By Maryann Kelly, Systems Biology Ireland On February 5, 2020, a group of four from Systems Biology Ireland (SBI) began our Agile LEAN Yellow Belt project with a full day workshop on the UCD...
A story about community, ideas and what’s in the back of your pantry
By Gregori Meakin – College of Arts & Humanities Desk Many of us in early lockdown may have found use for things from the backs of kitchen cupboards, forgotten cans of caviar, exotic fruits...
WST Summer School – here’s what happened
By Josephine Aylward, UCD Agile Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s remote-working version of our annual Work Smarter Together Summer School on 14th to 16th July. We were delighted with the attendance –...
Remote Working Stories: Shelly Power, Engineering and Architecture College Office
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile In this instalment of Remote Working Stories, we meet Shelly Power, currently in the Engineering and Architecture College Office, two weeks after her August 4 launch of the new...
Project Managers Community of Practice Update
By Iseult Ó Síocháin, Senior Project Officer, UCD Registry Like everything else these days, the Project Managers CoP moved online for its recent meet up in early June. The session was ably facilitated by...
USM Phase 3 Launch
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team The USM project has been live now since September 2018. In the last two years we have worked with over 200 staff across 40+ offices, bringing together their...
Working Smarter to manage ‘change requests’ remotely
By Sarah Butler, Curriculum Team, UCD Registry This Summer, my team were faced with the task of figuring out how to best gather information from Schools and Colleges during the busy registration preparation period...
Working in the ‘Distributed Office’ – Survey Results
By Amy McDonald, USM Rollout Team Ahead of the new academic year when everything work-wise is both familiar and constantly changing, we wanted to take time to reflect on how we, as a University, have...