FinOps after the low hanging fruits Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/finops-after-the-low-hanging-fruits What happens when all the low-hanging fruits are already in the basket? You have cleaned up the obvious waste. You have rightsized what could be rightsized. You have bought the discounts. You have built the dashboards. Everyone agrees that cloud cost matters. And then the real work begins. FinOps After the Low-Hanging Fruits is a video podcast about the harder side of FinOps: communication, diplomacy, negotiation, policy design, forecasting, organisational tension, and strategic thinking. The things that appear once the easy savings are gone. The official documentation can make it look simple. In practice, it rarely is. It is a bit like my son watching a few skateboarding videos and deciding he was good at it. The theory was clear. The confidence was high. Then came the concrete. FinOps is similar. Reading about forecasting, governance, capabilities, or collaboration is one thing. Making them work across finance, engineering, product, architecture, procurement, and leadership is something else entirely. This podcast is for FinOps practitioners who are past the basic cost-cutting phase and now need to make FinOps useful, credible, and strategic inside the business. We will talk about what happens after the first wins. When the dashboards are not enough. When the answer is no longer technical. And when FinOps has to become part of how the business makes decisions. 2026 Frank Contrepois 90cba888-9f5e-520a-b19f-0cce458ec2d0 yes Understanding 'the board' - teaser en Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:28:38 +0100 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:29:38 +0100 https://img.transistorcdn.com/Zai3l1j0nzY105Hr_8QZ457CeARaRJuBSlIIxmoINmk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMmFm/ZjZlYzFmODRiZjUz/NjUzZGFkOTRlODhk/NjAxNi5qcGc.jpg FinOps after the low hanging fruits episodic Frank Contrepois What happens when all the low-hanging fruits are already in the basket? You have cleaned up the obvious waste. You have rightsized what could be rightsized. You have bought the discounts. You have built the dashboards. Everyone agrees that cloud cost matters. And then the real work begins. FinOps After the Low-Hanging Fruits is a video podcast about the harder side of FinOps: communication, diplomacy, negotiation, policy design, forecasting, organisational tension, and strategic thinking. The things that appear once the easy savings are gone. The official documentation can make it look simple. In practice, it rarely is. It is a bit like my son watching a few skateboarding videos and deciding he was good at it. The theory was clear. The confidence was high. Then came the concrete. FinOps is similar. Reading about forecasting, governance, capabilities, or collaboration is one thing. Making them work across finance, engineering, product, architecture, procurement, and leadership is something else entirely. This podcast is for FinOps practitioners who are past the basic cost-cutting phase and now need to make FinOps useful, credible, and strategic inside the business. We will talk about what happens after the first wins. When the dashboards are not enough. When the answer is no longer technical. And when FinOps has to become part of how the business makes decisions. What happens when all the low-hanging fruits are already in the basket. Top down FinOps, leadership, governance, Frank Contrepois frank@coblan.it No No Do you know how power works and what a board does? 2 2 Do you know how power works and what a board does? full 63138ae4-581a-4be1-a1ea-54327990b40f https://share.transistor.fm/s/c3ab14ee When the easy FinOps savings are gone, the next challenge is not another dashboard. It is understanding how decisions really happen.


In this first episode of the series, Frank starts at the very top of the company: the owners, the board, and the auditor. Before we talk about cloud strategy, budgets, engineering, or FinOps policies, we need to understand where power sits and how it flows.


This episode gives practitioners a simple map of corporate power: shareholders delegate authority to the board, the board governs management, and auditors provide independent confidence that the company’s story matches reality.


For FinOps practitioners trying to move beyond rightsizing, reports, and low-hanging fruit, this is the starting point. Advanced FinOps is not only about finding waste. It is about helping organisations make better decisions about technology, money, risk, and value.

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In this first episode of the series, Frank starts at the very top of the company: the owners, the board, and the auditor. Before we talk about cloud strategy, budgets, engineering, or FinOps policies, we need to understand where power sits and how it flows.


This episode gives practitioners a simple map of corporate power: shareholders delegate authority to the board, the board governs management, and auditors provide independent confidence that the company’s story matches reality.


For FinOps practitioners trying to move beyond rightsizing, reports, and low-hanging fruit, this is the starting point. Advanced FinOps is not only about finding waste. It is about helping organisations make better decisions about technology, money, risk, and value.

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In this first episode of the series, Frank starts at the very top of the company: the owners, the board, and the auditor. Before we talk about cloud strategy, budgets, engineering, or FinOps policies, we need to understand where power sits and how it flows.


This episode gives practitioners a simple map of corporate power: shareholders delegate authority to the board, the board governs management, and auditors provide independent confidence that the company’s story matches reality.


For FinOps practitioners trying to move beyond rightsizing, reports, and low-hanging fruit, this is the starting point. Advanced FinOps is not only about finding waste. It is about helping organisations make better decisions about technology, money, risk, and value.

]]> Top down FinOps, leadership, governance, No Understanding 'the board' - teaser Understanding 'the board' - teaser trailer 90dc5f9c-f2cf-4a64-aa56-fbc4e5bcde51 https://share.transistor.fm/s/9cd4cbd4 Teaser for a new series of episodes.

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]]> Top down FinOps, leadership, governance, No How many arguments should you bring to create a convincing case? 1 1 How many arguments should you bring to create a convincing case? full b35b41dd-aaac-4c9c-b139-081a7b3bac30 https://share.transistor.fm/s/b7a524e5 When trying to convince, the number of arguments depends on who you target.

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