STABLE Framework - An Overview

Every organization, everywhere is trying to achieve Operational Excellence, whether they have the vocabulary for it or not.  Operational Excellence is delivering exactly what your customers need (effectiveness), with a minimum of byproduct (efficiency).

The Agile Mindset helps organizations achieve the first goal. The Stable Mindset helps organizations achieve the second goal.

Agile is about close customer feedback, short feedback loops, prioritizing value, and planning at multiple levels to support quick changes where necessary.  Stable is about removing human failure from the execution process.

A typical IT organization wastes about 35% of its work efforts redoing work that wasn’t done correctly the first time. Some groups report 50%, or as much as 80% of their efforts are attributed to this “Hidden Factory.” When expressed as a dollar amount, the effects are alarming.

The Stable Framework™ was designed to combat this problem. It’s a combination of the latest Agile and Lean techniques and provides a simple, but robust Quality Management System “in a box.” Heavy emphasis is placed on customer and supplier relationships, and Kaizen-based continuous improvement. Altogether, these tools provide organizations with the transparency and conscientiousness needed to execute the right steps, the right way, every time. .

Stable can be used to compliment a Scrum development team, or it can be implemented as a complete substitute for Scrum. In addition to Development, Stable is applicable in Operations, Implementation, DevOps, and any other work containing repeatable process steps.

The Stable Framework™ is comprised of one Process Asset Library, two roles, three domains, four core meetings within a repeating time-box, and five quality principles. Taken together, they form a tool-set enabling IT groups to perform six process improvement fundamentals.