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FinOpsPod – The FinOps Podcast

The FinOpsPod connects practitioners with the rest of the FinOps Foundation community. Real-world FinOps practitioners will share their experiences or interview one another, and the Foundation team will share the latest news about the community.

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FinOpsPod 34: FinOpsPod Year End 2023

Joe and Stacy review the stats on FinOpsPod in 2023 and Ambassadors share about their year and what their plans are for 2024.

FinOpsPod 33: How to Fix a Failing Tagging Strategy

Sarah Kula & Svetlana Pogrebny share their story about a tagging strategy that didn’t work and how they went about fixing it.

FinOpsPod 32: FinOpsPod at the DC FinOps Roadshow

Joe asks attendees at the DC Roadshow “What FinOps thing have you learned this year?”

FinOpsPod 31: Lessons From 10 Years of FinOps

Jason Fuller, Head of Cloud at HERE Technologies, looks back at lessons learned from doing FinOps since long before it was called FinOps.

FinOpsPod 30: Improving Collaboration Between IT & Finance

Matt Randle & Lori Doon discuss how collaboration between IT and Finance can help speed up and add value to the business.

FinOpsPod 29: Cloud Cost Anomalies: How to Detect and Manage Them

Victoria Levy and Keith Knowles of the Anomalies Working Group describe cloud cost anomalies, their lifecycle, and how to detect and manage them.

FinOpsPod 28: Catch Up with Our FinOps X 2023 Recap

We celebrate FinOps X 2023 and our community. This includes memorable moments, important announcements like FOCUS, new FinOps Foundation TAC members, and FinOps X 2024 info.

FinOpsPod 27: How to Inspire a 140-year-old Company to Implement FinOps

Anastasija Jakovleva, FinOps Practitioner at FLSmidth, gives us a look at her X ’23 session on how to get FinOps buy-in when Cloud isn’t yet a major focus of the company.

FinOpsPod 26: Financial and Ethical Challenges of MachineLearning Ops

Thiago Gil previews his FinOps X ’23 session discussing the FinOps and financial challenges, and ethical implications inherent in ML Ops/AI.

FinOpsPod 25: Putting the Right Reporting in the Path of Different FinOps Personas

Kate Ferguson, FinOps Practitioner, lends a few tips on choosing the proper FinOps KPIs and reporting to educate and inform specific personas.

FinOpsPod 24: Building and Operating FinOps-as-a-Product with Target

Target’s FinOps Practitioners Kim Wier and Ron Tatro tell us their experiences of operating FinOps as a Product at the retail giant.

FinOpsPod 23: How to Scale FinOps by Yourself

Sherri Wooldridge, FinOps Practitioner, shares her wisdom on how to scale FinOps as a team of one, and how to navigate unexpected change.

FinOpsPod 22: Strategies for Troubleshooting Cost Anomalies & Trends

Amy Ashby, FinOps Practitioner at UnderArmour, explains best practices involving troubleshooting cost anomalies and trends.

FinOpsPod 21: J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller Talk Cloud FinOps, Second Edition

J.R. Storment & Mike Fuller, authors of the official Cloud FinOps book, discuss what updates were included in the expansive Second Edition.

FinOpsPod 20: A Look at AIA’s FinOps Adoption Journey

Keith Austin from AIA, the first FinOps Foundation Enterprise Member in Asia, shares their organization’s FinOps adoption story.

FinOpsPod 19: A Certified Professional’s Look at Tooling and Teams

Rob Martin and FinOps Pro and Ambassador, Ermanno Attardo talk about what to consider when choosing FinOps tools and building teams.

FinOpsPod 18: Building FinOps Teams & Starting FinOps Careers

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

FinOpsPod 17: Intro to Automated Governance

Lindbergh Matillano, Director of the Cost Optimization team at Avalara, shares his perspective on FinOps and hints at the value automation can unlock.

FinOpsPod 16: Year-End Review 2022

Ashley Hromatko joins Stacy and Joe as they review some of their favorite FinOps moments of 2022, and what’s cooking for FinOps X 2023!

FinOpsPod 15: Driving FinOps Culture Through KPIs

Zach Stitham, VP – Cloud Business Management Office at Fidelity, discusses building a FinOps culture with a “KPI first” approach.

FinOpsPod 14: Cloud Cost Optimizations – Ideal vs. Reality

Jérémy Nancel & John Renne, FinOps Practitioners, debate the pros and cons of reducing cloud spend by rightsizing resources vs incurring tech debt via code drift.

FinOpsPod 13: FinOops… Lessons Learned the Hard Way

Listen and learn from the experiences of others in the FinOps community who bravely share their experiences with runaway bills, outages and disaster recovery tests gone wrong.

FinOpsPod 12: Building FinOps Knowledge & Embracing Fear

Alison McIntyre, FinOps Ambassador Emeritus, discusses the FinOps Certified Professional course, cloud-native application migrations, and risk and regulations.

FinOpsPod 11: The One About Cloud Unit Economics

Tony Johnson, FinOps Ambassador, talks about how to start and mature using unit economics to manage your cloud environment.

FinOpsPod 10: What Comes After FinOps Adoption?

Ursula LaVeck and Julia Harvey of Nationwide discuss how they continue maturing their operations after adopting and implementing FinOps.

FinOpsPod 09: FinOps X 2022 Recap

We recap the first-ever FinOps X conference, including interviews with community practitioners fresh out of the experience.

FinOpsPod 08: Answering Voicemail about Cloud Sustainability

FinOpsPod answers questions about Sustainability and Mark Butcher talks about the related community Working Group.

FinOpsPod 07: Bridging the Gap Between Finance & IT

Joe & Pedro discuss finance diving into the world of cloud, misconceptions, and what needs to be worked on in order to provide data for real-time FinOps decision making.

FinOpsPod 06: Cloud Service Attribution, Tags & Labels… OH MY!

Learn how to start, evolve and mature your cloud FinOps attribution strategy with insights from Jason Rhoades, Development Manager at Intuit.

FinOpsPod 05: Beginning the FinOps Career Journey

Hear the perspectives of three FinOps practitioners who have recently started their FinOps career journeys.

FinOpsPod 04: FinOps as Product at Target

Kim Wier, Director of Efficiency Engineering at Target, shares her journey, and how she has built her team by leveraging Target’s culture and commitment to learning.

FinOpsPod 03: The FinOps Foundation Visits the U.K.

The FinOps Foundation staff reflects on their trip to the U.K., discusses the London Roadshow, and experience connecting with FinOps peers.

FinOpsPod 02: The FinOps Chaos is to Be Embraced

Ben de Mora, former Instructor at the Foundation, discusses embracing FinOps chaos, architecture, sustainability, estimated cloud costs, and banjo.

FinOpsPod 01: Building Trust & FinOps Culture

We kickstart the podcast with Deana Solis, Sr. FinOps Engineer at Smarsh, as she discusses her journey and how she builds trust with her team.

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