The cloud has radically changed the way organisations budget for, use, monitor, and account for computing resources. Approaches that worked with on-premises computing no longer work in the cloud.
On this course, you'll learn how to apply FinOps techniques to successfully tame the complexity and disruption that comes with adopting cloud computing.
We’ll start the session by defining FinOps and its genesis in more technical approaches like DevOps, then discuss several real-world scenarios to motivate FinOps development and adoption. We’ll then move on to a more formal cloud-agnostic framework for FinOps adoption, and end the day with a high-level survey of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), cloud-native tools, team structures and related processes you may find useful when implementing FinOps in the real world.
This FinOps Foundations course is available as a private training session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom, at our Training centre in The Shard, London, or at a location of your choice.
Course overview
Who should attend:
This introductory-level course is ideal if you're considering spearheading a FinOps practice in your organisation, or if you're a finance, technology, or business team leader or practitioner whose team is interested in adopting or using FinOps.
What you'll learn:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define and motivate FinOps in terms of industry-wide and organisation-specific issues and scenarios
- Articulate FinOps principles and relate these to real-world problems and cases
- Use a semi-formal framework to set up and structure your organisation’s approach to, and adoption of, FinOps techniques and practices
- Understand what makes for good FinOps key performance indicators (KPIs), and how to use them
- Evaluate and adopt industry-standard cloud-native tools to help you implement FinOps in your organisation
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites for this course, but some familiarity with general cloud computing concepts is assumed.
Course agenda
- Defining FinOps
- Motivating FinOps
- FinOps principles
- Who benefits from FinOps?
- Success (and failure) factors
- Why a FinOps framework?
- How to use the FinOps framework
- Framework overview
- Domains
- Capabilities
- Personas
- Phases
- Maturity model
- KPIs
- Teams and structures
- Useful tools
- Resources, references and certification