Implement FinOps guide build-out

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📝 Scenario

As a FinOps practitioner, I need to learn, document, measure, adopt, and automate FinOps capabilities in order to maximize cloud ROI for my organization

🚀 Goal

Flesh out the Implementing FinOps guide to cover all aspects of maturity based on the FinOps assessment guide. We want to make sure our Implementing FinOps guide includes everything practitioners need to know in order to gain knowledge, document their processes, measure KPIs, drive organizational adoption, and automate each of these for each FinOps capability.

To accomplish this, we will need to review each capability and identify:

1. Knowledge: Is there anything missing or outdated in the capability guides that should be added, updated, or removed?
2. Metrics: How can we measure success of the capability and the nested elements and action items within the capability?
   • Leverage the KPI library and use case library
3. Process: What process would we recommend for customers to leverage in order to implement this capability?
4. Automation: How can we automate knowledge sharing, metrics (e.g., collection, reporting, alerting), and related processes (e.g., approvals, next actions)?
5. Adoption: Do we have any recommendations (or ways to automate) broad adoption for the capability across the organization?

As each capability is reviewed with these 5 lenses in mind, add any ideas on changes we could make to fill gaps and address opportunities in the task lists below. This may be documentation updates, features in existing tools, or potentially new tools that could be added to the toolkit. This issue is for documenting all the ideas and we will review them and prioritize them later, starting with documentation and then moving into new and updated tools.

📋 Understand cloud cost and usage

Data ingestion

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1. Review the Data ingestion capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Allocation

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1. Review the Allocation capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Reporting + analytics

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1. Review the Reporting + analytics capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Anomaly management

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1. Review the Anomaly management capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

📋 Optimize cloud cost and usage

Architecting for cloud

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1. Review the Architecting for cloud capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Workload optimization

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1. Review the Workload optimization capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Rate optimization

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1. Review the Rate optimization capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Licensing + SaaS

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1. Review the Licensing + SaaS capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Cloud sustainability

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1. Review the Cloud sustainability capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

📋 Quantify business value

Planning + estimating

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1. Review the Planning + estimating capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Forecasting

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1. Review the Forecasting capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Budgeting

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1. Review the Budgeting capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Benchmarking

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1. Review the Benchmarking capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Unit economics

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1. Review the Unit economics capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

📋 Manage the FinOps practice

FinOps practice operations

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1. Review the FinOps practice operations capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

FinOps education + enablement

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1. Review the FinOps education + enablement capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Invoicing + chargeback

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1. Review the Invoicing + chargeback capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

FinOps assessment

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1. Review the FinOps assessment capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Onboarding workloads

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1. Review the Onboarding workloads capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Cloud policy + governance

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1. Review the Cloud policy + governance capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

FinOps tools + services

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1. Review the FinOps tools + services capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

Intersecting disciplines

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1. Review the Intersecting disciplines capability to identify knowledge gaps, metrics, processes, automation opportunities, and adoption guidance

🙋‍♀️ Ask for the community

We'd love to get your feedback! If you see something missing, please suggest it in a comment and we'll add it to the list. If you'd like to pick up one of the suggestions, either start a discussion or create an issue for it and let us know!