The Challenge of Cloud
Traditional Technology Consumption Traditionally, companies had a platform team who dreamed of getting some hardware to build their application so they went to procurement. Procurement reviewed their complex business case and if sufficient, gave them access to the money. In this model… To complicate things further, in a DevOps world, there are many teams working […]
What is FinOps
At its core, FinOps is a cultural practice. It’s the way for teams to manage their cloud costs, where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage supported by a central best-practices group. Cross-functional teams in Engineering, Finance, Product, etc. work together to enable faster product delivery, while at the same time gaining more financial control […]
Personas & Teams
Personas Collaboration FinOps is inherently about collaboration. The key to the FinOps practice is the need to support a variety of different personas across the business. The FinOps team does not need to have all of the skills of each persona. Rather, they should work to build connections between personas as the FinOps culture becomes […]
FinOps Framework & Principles
FinOps Framework The FinOps Framework describes the principles that drive FinOps practices, the personas that FinOps supports as stakeholders, the best practices and process models used to accomplish this, and the domains of activity FinOps practitioners will perform as they build a FinOps team and drive the cultural change that FinOps brings into their organizations. […]
Domains & Capabilities
Domains Overview Overview Remember, you are moving to the cloud, facing challenges, and opportunities along the way. FinOps is helping you on that journey with the north star principles and you’ve formed a FinOps team to help work toward them. Now, what does a FinOps team do? The FinOps capabilities are the “what” the FinOps […]
Motivations & Common Language
Motivations Overview Remember, you’re moving to the cloud, facing challenges and opportunities. Your FinOps team is coming together to meet the FinOps principles and to perform the FinOps capabilities. However, as you think of the breadth of activities you’ll need to perform, consider the motivations and common language needs that will come into play. Everyone […]
Anatomy of a Cloud Bill
Anatomy of a Cloud Bill Remember, you’re moving to the cloud, facing challenges and opportunities. Your FinOps team is in place, ready to perform the capabilities that will let you meet the goals of the FinOps principles. One of the biggest challenges you will face is something specific to cloud: the massive amount of information […]
Running the FinOps Team
Recap We have spent a lot of time learning about the work that a FinOps team must do in an organization. Now, how do we use these concepts and models in our FinOps team to help our organizations achieve greatness and still focus on the FinOps team as a team? As we run our team […]
FinOps Inform Phase
Inform Phase Overview Recap Remember, you’re moving to cloud, facing challenges and opportunities. You’ve put together a FinOps team to realize the FinOps principles by exercising the FinOps capabilities. You’ve looked at the motivations of teams around your company and mastered the cloud billing data. Now we’ll exercise all of those capabilities to understand our […]
FinOps Optimize Phase
Optimize Phase Overview Recap Now that we’ve learned about exercising all of the capabilities and understanding our use and spending in the Inform phase, let’s look at opportunities to optimize. This could look like optimizing usage, cost profile, coverage, automation, or even level of visibility. Optimize Phase In the Optimize phase we target, define, and […]