A mature FinOps practice can still be useless to leadership
Your strategy dies before it reaches engineering
Strategy rarely reaches engineers intact. As decisions are reworked at every level, intent fragments and organisations drift. This model shows how to carry strategy through intent, policies, and implementation—and why FinOps sits at the centre of making it happen.
Notes from Tech Show London 2026
Why FinOps still lives in Excel
FinOps still lives in Excel not because tools are weak, but because the discipline lacks mandatory, GAAP-like standards. Without set in stone standardsthere is not much to build on. Until the foundation stabilises, wide adjustments are needed, and maturity stays out of reach.
CEO intent to FinOps decisions
Why shift left makes me uncomfortable
Shift-left is framed as empowerment: show engineers the cost impact and let them decide. But when economic responsibility moves down without strategic intent, budget ownership and reward moving with it, ownership can quietly become exposure.