Welcome
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile November greetings from the Work Smarter Together Community of Practice. This is our third newsletter since the launch of the CoPs in May. We have also had a...
Category: Newsletter November 2017
Wishing the December 2017 Green Belt Group a successful project journey
By Nuria Corcoran Two new and two continuing Green Belt projects are due to start their Green Belt training with SQT in December. As part of the training the participants will learn to successfully...
CoP – UCD PA Network
By Maureen Quinn, Sinead Kelly, Sinead McNally, Catherine Ryan The UCD PA Network was launched on Friday 20 October to provide support, share information and explore opportunities to develop as a group and individually. Our primary...
Agile Training Survey October 2017
So you do some Agile training – then what? This is what we asked our 216 colleagues from across the campus who had taken part in one of our three Lean Six Sigma training...
Save the Date – Work Smarter Together Event – 20 February 2018
By Nuria Corcoran After a very successful event in October we are planning a follow on event on February 20th. Our attendee survey asked for project examples from UCD so the session will have...
‘Person-Centred Culture of Care’ key message from 5th Annual Mater Lean Symposium
By Nuria Corcoran The 5th Annual Lean Symposium – Lean Six Sigma for Person-Centred Culture of Care – took place on 23rd November and showcased successful examples of “Person Centred” process changes delivered in the...
Programme Orientation Community of Practice (CoP)
By Irene Rose and Annette Patchett A desire to make orientation a great experience for in-coming students is what our Programme Orientation Community of Practice members have in common. Since we started up in...
Lean improvements for UCD’s curriculum support
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead When it comes to the UCD Programme Development, Approval and Review Framework (PDARF) process, the institutional demand for change was quite low level – people had come to accept...
Agile Training
By Nuria Corcoran Upcoming Training: Fundamentals of Lean for UCD 04 December 1/2 day session course full Yellow Belt 16 January Full day session spaces available Yellow Belt 17 January Full day session spaces...
‘Leveraging your institution’s support’ – the October CoP Event
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile How do you leverage the support and encouragement UCD provides when you are looking to make the changes you see would be helpful in your area? On 23...
Research Underspend – the story of a Green Belt project
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile As anyone knows who has ever put together a plan to spend money for some good reason or other, there are three ways spending goes – you spend...
What is Kano Analysis?
By Michael Sinnott, Director of Agile Before we start… ‘customer’ I always want to make sure we are clear on what we mean by ‘customer’… and in what context we use this word. The...
Using a SIPOC to get to know your process
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead. What is the tool used for? A SIPOC is a diagram with five columns that serves as a high-level illustration of a process and its’ scope. SIPOC is an...
Smarter Furniture Reuse in UCD
By Olga Murdoch, Agile Lead The furniture reuse programme is part of a bigger scheme within UCD Estate Services to divert furniture from landfill. To reduce the carbon footprint of UCD and reduce the...