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The CSPS Digital Accelerator is an applied learning experience designed for individuals and teams who want to adopt digital best practices and experiment with more collaborative, open, human-centred and iterative ways of defining problems and developing solutions.

The CSPS Digital Accelerator is an applied learning experience designed for individuals and teams who want to adopt digital best practices and experiment with more collaborative, open, human-centred and iterative ways of defining problems and developing solutions.

=='''<small>Stay connected with the CSPS Digital Academy</small>'''​==

=='''<small>Stay connected</small>'''​==

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*Join the Business Innovation and Growth Support Data Community of Practice

*[mailto:dsrd-sdrd@tbs-sct.gc.ca Contact the Data Science, Research and Development unit]

*[mailto:dsrd-sdrd@tbs-sct.gc.ca Contact the Data Science, Research and Development unit]

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|''Problem framing & ideation''  

|''Fundamental concepts of quantitative impact assessment''

|<nowiki>October 13/14/15 | 10am (ET)</nowiki>

|<nowiki>March 19 | </nowiki>

|You've identified a mission — to make something better, to change a process, to solve a problem — but how do you know if you've gotten to the root of the problem before you design a solution? Do you know what you’re trying to solve? This multi-session workshop will help teams take a broad problem or challenge they are facing and break it down into specific pieces, gain an understanding of users, and identify possible solutions to explore.

9am-12pm (ET)

 

|''Fundamentals'' will provide a comprehensive overview of QIA concepts. Participants will learn the difference between program outcomes and program impacts, and be introduced to the common approaches to QIA (such as difference-in-differences, discontinuity estimators, and more). This session will also offer a detailed overview of randomized controlled experiments – the gold standard of QIA.

 

|English with bilingual materials

'''Prerequisite: Bring a real business problem to be solved (what needs to be fixed?)'''

|Session 1 - Agenda and Materials

|''Product management approaches in Government''

|Managing digital products sometimes requires a different approach than traditional project management. In this workshop, you'll learn product management fundamentals, and apply these concepts to your work through hands-on activities. You'll also have a chance to learn from others who have incorporated product management into their public service organizations and hear about their journey to successful product teams.

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|''Agile in action — applying agile concepts in your organization''

|<nowiki>Tuesday, November 2 | 2pm (ET) </nowiki>

|Everyone is talking about agile, but what does it mean to put these tools and methods into practice within your team? Join us for an interactive, activity-based agile workshop where you can gain an understanding of how agile could work for you – and how to tailor it to your team’s needs.  

|English with bilingual Q&A, bilingual materials

|Registration closed.

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|''Finding and working with your users''

|''Leveraging data for impact analysis''

|<nowiki>Tuesday, November 9 | 1pm (ET) </nowiki>

|<nowiki>March 21 | </nowiki>

|"User-centered design" is talked about a lot, but how do you know if you're doing it? And if you haven't done it before, how do you start? This two-hour workshop will help you identify who your users are and explore how to engage them in shaping your product, service, or program to fit their needs.  

|English with bilingual Q&A, bilingual materials

|''Data'' will provide an overview of the data environments available through Statistics Canada. Participants will learn about performing custom tabulations and multivariate analysis, with specific emphasis on the availability of gender and diversity data and Quality of Life data. This session will explain how to access existing microdata and overcome data gaps.

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|English with bilingual materials

|Session 2 - Agenda and Materials

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|''Forming teams for digital projects''

|''Case Studies I: Applying QIA methods to evaluate program performance and impact''

|<nowiki>Wednesday, November 17 | 1pm (ET) </nowiki>

|<nowiki>March 26 | </nowiki>

|Building strong, multi-disciplinary teams that deliver products and services is not always easy. In this workshop, we walk leaders through how to form these types of teams, and how to empower them to deliver excellence as they help organizations embrace digital transformation.  

|English with bilingual Q&A, bilingual materials

|''Case Studies I'' will focus on three real-life examples of QIA methods being applied to evaluate program performance and impact. These case studies primarily leverage social data. The methods covered are (1) empirical density design, (2) hierarchical linear modelling, and (3) propensity score matching and difference-in-differences.

|Postponed. Check back for future dates.

|English with bilingual materials

|Session 3 - Agenda and Materials

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|''Unblocking tools 101''

|''Case Studies II: Applying QIA methods to evaluate program performance and impact''

|<nowiki>Wednesday, November 24 | 1pm (ET) </nowiki>

|<nowiki>March 28 | </nowiki>

|How might we unblock the modern tools we could use to move our digital projects forward? If you've ever heard "You can't have that tool", this is a workshop for you. Join us to talk through "the rules" vs. "the imagined rules" with experts and learn how to request access to the tools your team needs to be successful.

|English with bilingual Q&A, bilingual materials

|''Case Studies II'' will also focus on three real-life examples of QIA methods being applied to evaluate program performance and impact. These case studies primarily leverage business microdata. The methods covered are (1) propensity score matching and entropy balancing, (2) matching difference-in-differences, and (3) modified causal forest.

|Postponed. Check back for future dates.

|English with bilingual materials

|Session 3 - Agenda and Materials

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