Dutch Railways: All Aboard the DevOps Train!
summary
Dutch Railways runs a three‑year Lean/Agile/DevOps program that starts with two pilot teams and scales to 125 teams, proving value by specific metrics: test cycles drop from 45 to 15 minutes, SAP release windows fall from 20 hours to zero, and one value stream moves from quarterly deploys to 5 releases per week with zero downtime. Teams adopt a shared tooling suite called Towpath, measure faster, better, cheaper, happier, and show measurable business impact (near‑term revenue visibility) as a result.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 4:06Customer Journey
- 6:20Agile Transformation and Our Journey
- 10:59Awareness
- 14:08Book Clubs
- 16:02Experiments
- 20:28Feedback Loops
- 29:49Factory Paradigm
- 30:44External Suppliers
- 35:23Next Steps
- 36:15Working Environments
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