CIO Guidance: Building a FinOps Team

Executive Snapshot

• Figure: Executive Snapshot: Building a FinOps Team

Situation Overview

• FinOps Is Needed to Manage the Expanding Cloud

• Expanding Cloud

• FinOps Value Proposition

• The FinOps Core Team

• Informing Engineers

• Business Partners

• FinOps Goal

• FinOps Teams Address a New Set of Cloud Pain Points with a New Set of Capabilities

• Inform, Optimize, and Operate

• Top-Ranked Pain Points

• Table: FinOps Pain Points with Enterprise FinOps Response Roles

• Top-Ranked Capabilities

• Table: FinOps Priority Capabilities and Business Contribution and Benefit

• FinOps Teams Are Growing from the "Crawl" Stage to "Walk" and "Run" Stages

• Team Size and Structure

• FinOps Team Lead

• Team Size and Growth

• Table: Typical FinOps Team Size Evolution

• FinOps Requires a Collaborative Culture Integrated Across the Enterprise

• Enterprise Culture

• Team Training

• Changing Processes

• Decisions Need to Be Made Around When, Why, and How to Automate Cloud Management

• Automation Architecture

Advice for the Technology Buyer

• Design and Build a Rightsized FinOps Core Team and Enterprise Culture

• Cloud Size and Complexity

• Organizational Complexity

• Architecture Integration

• FinOps Lead Role

• Early Engineering Collaboration

• Business Involvement in Decisions

• Determine When and the Degree of Cloud Automation Required

• Automation Benefits

• Implementation Tips

• Develop a Checklist of Prioritized Considerations That the CIO Can Take Action on

• CIO Action Checklist

• Table: FinOps Organizational Design Considerations

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• Related Research

• Synopsis