Demystifying FinOps

Written for the benefit of current generation tech's, who aspire to become managers from a technical and management perspective, Demystifying FinOps "The Techno Managers Handbook" was carefully crafted after gathering insights from Cloud, SAM, Finance professionals, CTO's / CIO's, IT leaders, and Auditors with a fine balance of technology and management guiding principles. The authors of this book have real-time operational and consulting exposure in managing and building large scale global technology Operations. Knowing the ground realities and operational challenges we have represented the handbook solution using building blocks model on a 6-dimensional view of Rubik's cube puzzle represented as Self-starter,The Technical Know How, Creating Business Case, Building Operational Playbook, Governance, & Benchmarking.

Our motive is for you to refer to The Techno Managers Handbook time and time again as and when you run into challenges or looking for a shift in your carrier onto FinOps.

• Introducing FinOps
• Self-Starter
• What is FinOps?
• Why embrace FinOps?
• When to adapt FinOps?
• Where FinOps is Practiced?
• How does FinOps Benefit?
• What is in for Organization?
• What is in for you?
• The Technical Know How
• The Practical Learning
• SaaS: Software as a Service
• PaaS: Platform as a Service
• IaaS: Infrastructure as a Service
• Shared Responsibility Know-How
• Creating Business Case
• Define Goal
• Information Collection
• Validate Solution
• Create Practice
• Benefit Map
• Implementation Plan
• Initiation
• POC Development
• Planning
• Design
• Development and Testing
• Implementation phase and schedule
• Run Operations Playbook
• Benchmark and Measurement
• Cost Review
• Know Your Demand for Expertise
• Value Vs Pay Knowhow
• Network and Collaborate
• Building Operational Playbook
• Planning
• Building
• Pre-assessment
• Confirm Requirements
• Create a Business Case
• Readiness Assessment Report
• Pilot Migration Plan
• Proof of Concept (POC)
• Migrate to Cloud
• Measure success
• Data Migration
• Application Migration
• Cloud Transition
• Validation
• Run and Optimize
• Mitigate
• Visibility
• Identify Misconfiguration
• Multi-Tennent / Shared resources
• Run Strategy
• Factors Driving Cloud Adoption (Rate from 1 to 10)
• Dedicated Vs Leveraged Support Model
• Leveraged Model
• Dedicated Model
• Governance
• Benchmarking Exercise
• Self-Assessment Kit - 50 Yard Check
• Business Objectives
• Cloud Service Level Agreements
• Security Guarding the Doors
• Cloud Automation
• Business Continuity
• Governance, Risk Management, And Compliance
• Migration Readiness
• Migration Making the Move
• Service Termination
• Billing Paying
• Conclusion

This is a book that is supposed to be about FinOps. It is not!

The book describes in extremely generic and high-level steps what Cloud is, nothing else. And even that is made amateurish.

Avoid at all costs.