Digital Continuity Framework
The Digital Continuity Framework (DCF) is designed to protect the United States Critical Infrastructure as traditional approaches to harden software supply chains actually increases risk, time to repair, and cost.
While software supply chains are large and complex, DCF is not. The DCF contains only 3 Key Elements & 6 Key Activities. However, to truly accelerate into a resiliency-based culture, we recommend a few more artifacts and activities.
Unlike traditional transformations, the DCF does not prescribe how teams operate. High-performing teams are self-managing and thus need to operate in a manner that considers their size, maturity, type & complexity of work, and dependencies.
Key elements
A codified list of all physical or virtual assets that are part of a software solution.
A centralized backlog of efforts the organization needs to establish and maintain software resiliency.
A centralized capability to provide visibility of the organizations’ risk posture and performance.
DCF Key activities
The DCF contains just six (6) key activities to continually identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
Required
The first four activities are required as they involve knowing what resources to validate, gathering metadata of statues, planning what to address, and finally executing them on the plan.
Optional
The last two (2) will allow your organization to become more resilient more quickly with just a little more investment in understanding how you work and building consensus of what processes or data to improve.
1
Cataloging
Discover and catalog all know digital assets
2
Harvesting
Harvest negative findings from your digital assets (vulnerabilities, weaknesses, flaws, and smells)
3
Planning
Continually perform just-in-time risk-based planning
4
Execution
Swarm to work on the organization’s most pressing needs
5
Learning
Champion just-in-time learning, problem awareness, and requests for help
6
Improving
Establish a culture where everyone is required to provide suggestions for improvement
Four additional artifacts
Common Language
Codify terms & definitions for more effective communication
Risk & Issue Backlog
Design a well-formed centralized backlog to efficiently manage risks & issues
Operational Documents (governance, compliance, policies, procedures, regulations, requirements, etc.)
Unify the minimal documentation necessary to maintain resiliency, auditability, and compliance
Design & Implementation Documents (Architecture, infrastructure)
Maintain AS-IS and TO-BE architecture and infrastructure document
Six additional activities
Risk & Issue Management
Continually discover, qualify. quantify, and address risk & issues
Systemic Monitoring
Continually increase systemic monitorability across technical solutions
Incident Response
Establish processes and procedures to effectively qualify and address incidents
Operational Optimization
Adopt Lean to eliminate, automate, and reduce activities
Exploratory Testing
Adapt testing to focus on response to failures
AI Exploitation
Build AI/ML team(s) to help the organization discover unexpected opportunities for improvement
Meaningful Certifications
While the use of DCF and all its supportive materials & images are free to use, we highly suggest attaining certification to validate knowledge of core concepts. Those who wish to train others can attain an additional certification that demonstrates the ability to facilitate the necessary training & workshops to others.
Both certifications are low-cost high-impact learning journeys that are usable within any organization.
Formal Training & Workshops
disruptiveOps provides training and workshops to teams and organizations who recognize the need to replace popular ways of working, like Scrum and especially the Scaled Agile Framework, with more pragmatic just-in-time approaches.
Foundation
To accelerate resiliency across your organization, its best to attain either some formal training about the DCF or better yet, host a day or multi-day workshop event so we can help you quickly design and lean its implementation.
Please note that the prices below are per student but offer discounts based on the number of attendees. Contact us today so we can better understand your needs and customize a solution that is ideal for organization.
Workshops
Our private in-person DCF workshops are the ideal approach for an organization to jump start their resiliency journey. By tailoring to the needs of the organization, they quickly customize the DCF to meet their immediate needs and develop actionable real-world plans. Workshops generally range from 2 to 5 days but customizable to meet the organization’s needs.
Digital Continuity Framework READY
Learn the foundational concepts for establishing and maintaining resiliency across the organization.
Students will gain the basic information needed to understand the purpose, value, and inner workings of the key artifacts and activities required for continuity across your ecosystem of digital solutions.
Duration
1 hour
Price
Free
Digital Continuity Framework
SET
This course is ideal for those who are ready to actually start applying the DCF within their organization.
We present everything in the foundational course then the start discussing considerations on how to manage the artifacts and activities to include a Good, Better, Best approach for each as well as potential anti-patterns.
Duration
4 hours
Price
$299
Digital Continuity Framework
GO
The daily classes go beyond what is taught in the other courses by working towards identifying your most critical systems, vulnerabilities, risk, etc. and collaborating to actually implement the DCF.
Our team will drive the conversations necessary so your organization can immediately start recognizing the value of the DCF and tailoring it to improve transparency and gain results.
Duration
Daily
Price
$500
Need more assistance?
disruptiveOps is available to supplement your teams along their resiliency journey. Please contact us today for a complimentary discussion.