Transformation through Agile Product Design
We are part of the 5th cohort of fellows at Code For Canada (C4C), a national nonprofit that enables governments to deliver better digital services and empowers communities to solve civic challenges. During our fellowship, we will work with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Latest Blog Posts
Introducing the Policy Difference Engine
Published on January 26, 2021 by Regan MelocheAn introduction to modelling legislation with Rules as Code
SPSD/M Microsimulation for EI
Published on January 21, 2021 by Regan MelocheThis post is an overview of the Social Policy Simulation Database/Model tool created by Stats Canada. Official Documentation and description can be found here. Please see our Microsimulation reference page […]
Microsimulation at Stats Canada
Published on January 5, 2021 by Regan MelocheThis post is a brief summary of the microsimulation approach taken by StatsCanada on several projects, as well as an exploration of how it may be relevant to a policy difference engine.
Sprint Retrospectives
Sprint 6. Blinky
Published on February 18, 2021This sprint is all about showing the thing! We share our value proposition, our team alignment activities, user research findings, our understanding of the policy decision-making process, and the parliamentary consultation process. We also share wireframes and an exciting prototype.
Sprint 5. Husky the Muskie
Published onThis sprint, we looked at our progress on the Policy Difference Engine. We better understand our relationship with other partners, dive deeper into microsimulation, SPSD/M, and introduce our high level technical architecture. We also cover our agile approach, and the limitations of service design within government as we better understand policy implementation.
Sprint 4. Magikarp
Published on January 22, 2021For our fourth sprint, Team Babel continued our work on ideating potential product pathways while ramping up our research on Microsimulations.