Cloud FinOps, 2nd Edition

Chapter 25. Connectivity to Other Frameworks

Unless your company was born in the cloud and spends most of its technology budget there, FinOps likely won’t exist in a vacuum, and it will probably not be the only IT management discipline your organization practices.

Most large organizations use a variety of different IT management disciplines to define how they will deliver technology services, to understand the value of the spending associated with them, to accelerate the adoption or delivery curve, and to keep the organization safe from a wide variety of risks.

This chapter lays out a starting path for how to work with the teams in your organization using other IT and technology spending-related frameworks. The focus will be less about the technical intersections between the methodologies (that’s more detail than we have room for here) and more about the ways to work with teams/people who do them. The goal is to work with these other frameworks and disciplines successfully, to complement them instead of overlapping or competing with them. Too often we’ve seen friction between disciplines or offices emerge as each tries to establish power over the other or create influence within the organization. FinOps is not meant to be a panacea to all IT spending problems, but to help enable all disciplines in the organization—including other IT management functions and teams—to manage cloud use and cost effectively.

The exhaustive list of IT-related frameworks is long and—for many of us—confusing. ...