The DevOps train is running at Dutch Railways. It departed in 2016 and is now increasing speed and reach in 2019, towards a number of 63 DevOps teams in 2020. But the DevOps journey at scale is full of technical, organizational en operational hurdles. Lessons to be shared and learned from.

In becoming a more responsive organization to customer needs, the focus is on becoming Better, Faster, Cheaper and Happier. Experimenting, Metrics, Tools, MVPs, Continuous Learning, Team Performance and Impediment Management are some of the ingredients used to make DevOps work and overcome the organizational silos.

The latest ten years of his professional career, Ard got heavily involved in agility topics, starting out as General Manager at an IT incubator company supporting start-ups. Followed by an assignment as IT Director for an education platform, releasing every three weeks a new version to 1.2 mln users and breaking down the monolith. In the past three years, as Manager Software Development at NS, he became actively involved in Agile, LEAN, Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices, further evolving in being an Agile leader instead of Manager.