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<h1 style="color:#3f2a56"><strong>Welcome</strong></h1><big>The CSPS Digital Accelerator is a transformative learning experience that helps teams transition to new digital ways of working. The Accelerator provides an opportunity for established teams and their leaders to experiment with collaborative, open, human-centred and iterative ways of defining problems and prototyping solutions. Through a combination of hands-on workshops, peer learning, coaching and mentoring, participants will apply their new-found skills in design thinking, user research, prototyping, product management, and agile to address a real business problem facing their organization.</big><br>

<h1 style="color:#3f2a56"><strong>Welcome</strong></h1><big>The CSPS Digital Accelerator is a transformative learning experience that helps teams transition to new digital ways of working. The Accelerator provides an opportunity for established teams and their leaders to experiment with collaborative, open, human-centred and iterative ways of defining problems and prototyping solutions. Through a combination of hands-on workshops, peer learning, coaching and mentoring, participants will apply their new-found skills in design thinking, user research, prototyping, product management, and agile to address a real business problem facing their organization.</big><br>

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=== <big>Goals</big> ===

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===== <big>'''''Learning by doing'''''</big> =====

=====<big>'''''Learning by doing'''''</big>=====

<big>Teams get hands-on opportunities to apply new skills by designing, prototyping, and testing solutions to a real business problem relevant to their department.</big>

<big>Teams get hands-on opportunities to apply new skills by designing, prototyping, and testing solutions to a real business problem relevant to their department.</big>

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===== '''''<big>Designing an empowering experience</big>''''' =====

====='''''<big>Designing an empowering experience</big>'''''=====

<big>Great products and services are human-centred and designed for and with users. This applies to the Accelerator too. We design experiences with our participants in mind and support them every step of the way with coaching and mentoring, so they can have an enriching, empowering experience. We give teams the skills and tools they need to help them shift in the way they work, create, and share.</big>

<big>Great products and services are human-centred and designed for and with users. This applies to the Accelerator too. We design experiences with our participants in mind and support them every step of the way with coaching and mentoring, so they can have an enriching, empowering experience. We give teams the skills and tools they need to help them shift in the way they work, create, and share.</big>

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===<big>Onboarding and team building (1 week)</big>===

===<big>Onboarding and team building (1 week)</big>===

* <big>Team building</big>​

*<big>Team building</big>​

* <big>Skill sessions</big>​

*<big>Skill sessions</big>​

* <big>Introduction to new tools</big>

*<big>Introduction to new tools</big>

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===<big>Design Discovery (4 weeks)</big> ===

===<big>Design Discovery (4 weeks)</big>===

*<big>Problem framing</big>​

*<big>Problem framing</big>​

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=== <big>Product Team</big> ===

===<big>Product Team</big>===

* <big>5-10 people</big>  

*<big>5-10 people</big>

* <big>Diverse & multidisciplinary</big>

*<big>Diverse & multidisciplinary</big>

* <big>Product teams work on their problems <strong>full time</strong> during the Accelerator and ideally stay together once it is over</big>

*<big>Product teams work on their problems <strong>full time</strong> during the Accelerator and ideally stay together once it is over</big>

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=== <big>Steering Team</big> ===

===<big>Steering Team</big>===

* <big>1 executive champion who participates <strong>part time</strong> in accelerator activities and fully supports the work of the product team</big>

*<big>1 executive champion who participates <strong>part time</strong> in accelerator activities and fully supports the work of the product team</big>

* <big>2-4 other executive supporters who form a governance body and help support the work of the team through: approvals, guidance, unblocking, feedback, upward briefing, and funding.</big>

*<big>2-4 other executive supporters who form a governance body and help support the work of the team through: approvals, guidance, unblocking, feedback, upward briefing, and funding.</big>

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=== <big>Corporate Partners</big> ===

===<big>Corporate Partners</big>===

* <big>Enablers and partners who can support the product team in delivering their solution</big>

*<big>Enablers and partners who can support the product team in delivering their solution</big>

* <big>Could include: corporate services, security, legal, policy, communications or other forms of expertise</big>

*<big>Could include: corporate services, security, legal, policy, communications or other forms of expertise</big>

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<h1 style="color:#3f2a56"><div id="Right Problems"><strong>The right problems for the Accelerator</strong></div></h1>

<h1 style="color:#3f2a56"><div id="Right Problems"><strong>The right problems for the Accelerator</strong></div></h1>

=== <big>What's ''not'' the right problem? </big> ===

===<big>What's ''not'' the right problem? </big>===

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==== <big>Information sessions about the Accelerator</big> ====

====<big>Information sessions about the Accelerator</big>====

<big>In Spring 2021, CSPS welcomed its first cohort of Accelerator teams for a 13-week, completely virtual hands-on learning experience. Five teams participated, from four departments:  </big>  

<big>In Spring 2021, CSPS welcomed its first cohort of Accelerator teams for a 13-week, completely virtual hands-on learning experience. Five teams participated, from four departments:  </big>  

* <big>Canada Revenue Agency</big>  

*<big>Canada Revenue Agency</big>

* <big>Department of Fisheries and Oceans</big>  

*<big>Department of Fisheries and Oceans</big>

* <big>Department of National Defence</big>  

*<big>Department of National Defence</big>

* <big>Canada School of Public Service</big>  

*<big>Canada School of Public Service</big>

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