War and Peace and DevOps

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Using Napoleon at Borodino as a metaphor, argument says long governance lead times break fast feedback: value streams with 104 documents and 13 stage-gates produce delivery timelines of 18 months to five years even when teams can do 100 deployments a day. Cloud plus DevOps are claimed to lower risk by enabling small experiments, rapid measurement and stop/go investment decisions, converting big upfront bets into incremental, evidence‑based funding that actually shortens sensing-to-cash cycles.

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1. 0:00Introduction to transformation
2. 1:58Lessons from Napoleon
3. 6:51Outcomes and lead time
4. 11:06The risk of upfront planning
5. 15:41Redefining risk and failure
6. 21:41Optimizing investment returns

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