FinOpsPod

23 Sherri Wooldridge - FinOps Experience Interrupted/How To Scale FinOps By Yourself

Sherri was scheduled to record this episode about how to scale a FinOps practice when you are a team of 1, when news hit and a wrench was thrown in the plan. Sherri still shares her wisdom on the topic, but also addresses when unexpected change happens that cause you to change your plans.

• Sherri (Baldwin) Wooldridge | LinkedIn

Episode 22 FinOps X Session Preview - Amy Ashby - Strategies for Troubleshooting Cost Anomalies & Trends

Amy Ashby, FinOps Lead at Under Armor, previews her FinOps X presentation.

Register for FinOps X now: x.finops.org

Check out the other breakout sessions at X: https://x.finops.org/agenda/

• FinOps X - June 27-30, 2023 San Diego, California
• Amy Ashby | LinkedIn

Episode 21 J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller: Cloud FinOps Book, Second Edition

J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller, authors of Cloud FinOps - Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Value Decision Making, visit to discuss what updates were included in the expansive Second Edition.

• Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Value Decision Making
• Mike Fuller | LinkedIn
• J.R. Storment | LinkedIn
• FinOps X - June 27-30, 2023 San Diego, California

Episode 20 Keith Austin - AIA's FinOps Adoption

Keith Austin from AIA, the first FinOps Foundation Enterprise Member in Asia, shares their story about their drive to be leaders in their region and their adoption of FinOps. Topics covered include training and development, challenges and success in FinOps adoption and collaborating with departments they had normally not interacted with.

• Upcoming FinOps Events
• Keith Austin | LinkedIn
• AIA Grants First Awards Under Its University Scholarships Programme | AIA

Episode 19 Ermanno Attardo - FinOps Pro Talk: FinOps Tooling and FinOps Teams

Part 1 of the conversation between the FinOps Foundation's Rob Martin and FinOps Pro and Ambassador, Ermanno Attardo. Topics covered include things to consider when choosing a FinOps tool, how to form FinOps teams and the best ways to build Trust.

• FinOps Certification and Training
• Ermanno Attardo | LinkedIn
• FinOps X - June 27-30, 2023 San Diego, California

Episode 18 Bonus Episode - Building FinOps Teams & Starting FinOps Careers

In a special episode - Joe & Stacy discuss traditional and nontraditional paths to a FinOps career and how to identify good candidates for a FinOps team.

Share this quick episode with someone looking to get into FinOps or someone you think SHOULD get into FinOps!

• FinOps Jobs - All the cloud financial management jobs in one place

Episode 17 Lindbergh Matillano - Intro to Automated Governance

Lindbergh Matillano, Director of the Cost Optimization team at Avalara, shares his experience and perspective towards FinOps and FinOps governance. How he leverages his heritage and his background in finance. Lindbergh also shares how to approach automating cloud governance.

• Lindbergh Matillano | LinkedIn

Episode 16 Year End Review 2022

Ashley Hromatko joins Stacy and Joe as they review some of their favorite FinOps moments of 2022. Plus - insights into what sort of content we are looking for at FinOps X 2023!

Thank YOU (yes - you the person reading this right now) for helping make this community great and for making it a special year. Happy New Year!

• State of FinOps 2023 Survey
• Call for Proposals FInOps X 2023
• FinOps X - June 27-30, 2023 San Diego, California

Episode 15 Zach Stitham - Driving FinOps Culture Through KPIs

Zach Stitham, VP - Cloud Business Management Office at Fidelity, talks with Ashley Hromatko on FinOps KPIs. How do you chose them? How do you mature them? How do you drive the right behaviors and culture by leveraging them? Stay on target for your goals by listening to this episode!

• FinOps X '22 Breakout: Fidelity's FinOps KPI Journey - Zachary Stitham & Noel Crowley (Fidelity) - YouTube
• Zachary Stitham | LinkedIn

Episode 14 Jérémy Nancel & John Renne - Optimizations Ideal vs Reality

Rightsizing an under-utilized resource is an easy way to save on cloud costs, right? Or is it? In a conversation taken from the FinOps Foundation Slack channels, Jérémy Nancel & John Renne debate the pros and cons of reducing cloud spend by rightsizing resources vs incurring tech debt via code drift.

• Jérémy NANCEL | LinkedIn
• John Renne | LinkedIn
• Join the FinOps Foundation Community Today

Episode 13 FinOops - Lessons Learned the Hard Way

We all make mistakes. Some mistakes are just more expensive than others. In this episode, listen and learn from the experiences of others in the FinOps community who bravely share their experiences with runaway bills, outages and disaster recover tests gone wrong.

• Join the FinOps Foundation Community Today
• Courtney Bormann | LinkedIn
• Eric Mulartrick, MBA | LinkedIn
• Michael Barba | LinkedIn
• Erik Norman | LinkedIn

Episode 12 Alison McIntyre - FinOps Knowledge & Embracing Fear

Alison McIntyre, Cloud FinOps Lead at Lloyds Banking Group, discusses what it feels like to start the FinOps Certified Professional course, cloud native application migrations and the impact of risk and regulations. There is a moment for everyone in this episode!

• FinOps Certified Professional Course Information
• Alison McIntyre | LinkedIn

Episode 11 Tony Johnson - The One About Unit Economics

Tony Johnson, fresh from presenting on Unit Economics at FinOps X, talks with Joe about how to start and mature using unit economics to manage your cloud environment.

• August FinOps Summit - Unit Economics Working Group Update
• Introduction to Cloud Unit Economics
• Anthony "TJ" Johnson | LinkedIn

Episode 10 Ursula LaVeck & Julia Harvey - What Comes After FinOps Adoption

Joe visits with some of his old friends and colleagues, Ursula LaVeck and Julia Harvey, to learn how they continued maturing their operations after implementing FinOps at their organizations.

• Julia Harvey | LinkedIn
• Ursula LaVeck, MBA | LinkedIn
• Join the FinOps Foundation Community Today
• FinOps Foundation - YouTube

Episode 9 FinOps X 2022 | Austin, TX

The first annual FinOps X conference was held in Austin, TX in June. Joe & Stacy wrap it up and talk about the Ballroom B Wolfpack and the rest of our amazing community that showed up and embraced being together at the first FinOps conference. Includes interviews with Eli Mansoor, Dieter Matzion, Aaron Edell, Mike Eisenstien, Alee Whitman, Dann Berg, Michelle Dupuis and many more!

• Mastering AWS Cost Optimization: Real-world technical and operational cost-saving best practices
• FinOps Foundation - FinOps X recordings

Episode 8 FinOpsPod Voicemail: Cloud Sustainability

FinOpsPod checks their voicemail and receives a question on Cloud Sustainability from Prabha Palanivelu. Mark Butcher swoops in and provides a quick answer and pitches you to join the FinOps Foundation Sustainability Working Group. To join the working group, join the Foundation to get Slack access and join the channel #wg-finops-for-sustainability.

• Prabhagaran Palanivelu | LinkedIn
• Leave FinOpsPod a voicemail
• Mark Butcher | LinkedIn

Episode 7 Pedro Veloso - Bridging the Gap Between Finance & I.T.

The Finance episode! Pedro Veloso, International Man of FinOps, has performed FinOps-style roles in Brazil and Germany. Joe & Pedro discuss finance diving into the world of cloud, some of the misconceptions, the challenges and the problems that need to be worked on in order to provide data for real-time decision making.

Also, special-guest appearance by Finn the Dog.

• Pedro Matos Veloso | LinkedIn
• Spotify Scaling Agile Model - PM Today

Episode 6 Jason Rhoades - Attribution, Tags & Labels . . . OH MY!

It's the episode about tags, labels, account structures - how you attribute your cloud usage and spend to information that is important to you! Learn how to start, evolve and mature your attribution strategy with insights from Jason Rhoades, Development Manager at Intuit.

• Jason Rhoades | LinkedIn
• Cost Allocation (Metadata & Hierarchy)

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

Episode 5 FinOps Careers: Beginning the FinOps journey

The FinOps career path continues to evolve. Hear the perspectives of three practitioners, Vijay Karthavya Kudithipudi, Kate Ferguson and Hector J. Meneses Jr., who have recently started their FinOps career journeys. What is similar to your path? What is different?

Register for FinOpsX: X.FinOps.Org

• Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
• Hector J. Meneses Jr. | LinkedIn
• Kate Ferguson | LinkedIn
• Vijaya Karthavya Kudithipudi, PMP® | LinkedIn
• FinOps March 2022 Summit - More State of FinOps Data - YouTube
• FinOps X | Linux Foundation Events - Registration and information for FinOps X

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

Episode 4 Kim Wier - FinOps as Product Part 1

Kim Wier, Director of Efficiency Engineering at Target, joins the show and shares her career path, how she has built her team, leveraging Target's culture and commitment to learn. We also dive into the why and how Kim's team are building their own FinOps toolset. You do not want to miss this conversation!

Register for FinOpsX: X.FinOps.Org

• FinOps March 2022 Summit - More State of FinOps Data - YouTube
• Kim Wier | LinkedIn
• Target CIO Mike McNamara: Technology is too important to outsource | CIO

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

Episode 3 FinOps Foundation in the U.K.

Join the FinOps Foundation staff on their trip to the United Kingdom! Listen to clips of the London Roadshow and experience connecting with FinOps peers with Noel Crowley. Then get an overview of the staff offsite in Edinburgh.

Register for FinOpsX: X.FinOps.Org

London Roadshow presenters:

Natalie Daley

Bhups Hirani

Sanjay Apte

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

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Ben de Mora - The Chaos Is To Be Embraced

Ben de Mora may be the newest staff member at the FinOps Foundation, but he is absolutely not new to the Foundation at all. Ben has been a FinOps Instructor for years and he shares his experiences teaching the FinOps Certified Practitioner course. The conversation goes in a number of different directions - architecture, sustainability, estimated cloud costs and banjo. As Ben reminds us, the chaos is to be embraced.

Key Moments

06:52 - FinOps Certified Practitioner Course

11:08 - FinOps & Architecture

18:52 - Implications of preemptible compute and sustainability

24:57 - Cost estimates while launching infrastructure

• FinOps X, June 20-21, Austin, Texas
• FinOps NYC Meetup Jan 2022: Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, co-founder Infracost - YouTube
• FinOps Training & Certification
• Ben de Mora | LinkedIn
• New Shoes - Eric Bibb | Song Info | AllMusic - Song that Ben's father plays banjo on.

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Learn more about the FinOps Foundation at FinOps.org.

Episode 1 Deana Solis - Building Trust & FinOps Culture

FinOps Pod launches for the first time with guest is Deana Solis, Sr. FinOps Engineer at Smarsh.

Deana has been an active practitioner member of the FinOps Foundation since early 2020 and has been an active contributor to working groups in the foundation.

During the interview, Deana goes over the importance of community, diversity and how to build trust when implementing a FinOps culture.

Key Moments:

[10:46] - Thinking about people when designing policies and process

[15:18] - Culture clashes between new and experienced workers when implementing change

[20:08] - Finance vs Engineering culture clashes

[23:06] - Diversity in styles of work

[32:11] - "Not Savings Plans for RDS"

Relevant Links

Deana Solis LinkedIn Profile

Noel Crowley LinkedIn Profile

Stacy Case LinkedIn Profile

Joe Daly LinkedIn Profile

FinOps Foundation Shared Costs Working Group - Guide to Spreading Out Shared Costs

Learn more and join the FinOps Foundation at www.FinOps.org.

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