Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps

Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success. SHOW: 775CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwNEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSORS:Datadog Application Monitoring: Modern Application Performance MonitoringGet started monitoring service dependencies to eliminate latency and errors and enhance your users app experience with a free 14 day Datadog trial. Listeners of The Cloudcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt.CloudZero – Cloud Cost Visibility and Savings​​CloudZero provides immediate and ongoing savings with 100% visibility into your total cloud spendSHOW NOTES:DoIT HomepageSimplifying FinOps for AI Workloads (Eps.719)Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup (Eps. 761)DIKW Pyramid - Framework for data classificationTopic 1 - Welcome to the show and back to the show. Gary, tell us about your background and what areas you focus on at Google Cloud these days. Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about language, specifically the gaps in language (and understanding) between engineering teams and finance teams. What works today and where are the biggest gaps and challenges?Topic 3 - One of the challenges of Cloud billing, and hence FinOps, is the 100s or 1000s or line-items. What are they for? How are they changing? What are some of the things/tools out there to make sense of all of this spend? (e.g. visualization, tagging, etc.)Topic 4 - We’re all familiar with budgeting (pre-activity) and complaints about project/cost overruns (post-activity), but what are some of the things happening mid-project, or on-going to avoid the surprises or overruns?Topic 5 - How much of these on-going changes/tracking is done by the engineering teams and how much is being done by finance teams? Topic 6 - Can you share with us examples of how companies have evolved with good FinOps principles and hygiene in place? FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @thecloudcastnetFEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comeBluesky: @EntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow