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...
Category: Newsletter December 2018
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...
Technical Development Network
By Jimmy Muldoon The UCD Technical Development Network in association with the UK group HEaTED is running a Network Meeting for Third Level technical staff, on the topic “Technical Careers – Making a Successful...
Community of Practice for School Managers
By Claire Nolan, School of Information and Communication Studies The Community of Practice for School Managers commenced meeting during the 2018/19 Autumn semester. Initial meetings have covered both operational and strategic issues, and the...
Introduction of a Chemical Management System in the Food Science Laboratory
By Sabine Harrison, School of Agriculture and Food Science I am a food and nutrition technologist in the School of Agriculture and Food Science. Having completed my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training in...
USM Rollout – the story so far
By Jeremy Britton and Amy McDonald Phase 1 of the rollout of the Unified Support Model (USM) began in October 2018. Since then we have made great progress, working with the first four offices...
Agile’s October 2018 Training Survey
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile What happens after training with UCD Agile – is the training used, what is used in what way, what helps and what impedes? We use our annual October survey...
Agile’s new training
By Michael Sinnott, UCD Agile In November 2018 UCD Agile launched three new training sessions and began teaching an enhanced version of the established Yellow training. Lots of feedback and thinking went into these...
WST 19: Our people, shaping a better future – call for participation
Work Smarter Together 2019 (WST ’19), Thursday, 14 March is an exciting UCD-wide event dedicated to celebrating our creativity, innovation and collaboration, and this year’s theme is “Our people, shaping a better future”. In...
WST event October 2018: ‘The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives’
By Olga Murdoch, UCD Agile We had a wonderful turnout of over 70 people at our October WST event ‘The Stories Behind University-wide Initiatives’ which took place on Tuesday 30 October in the Moore...