Scaling FinOps for your organization

In this section, we’ll move away from the technical aspects of cost optimization and consider some low-tech approaches that will help scale your teams and your FinOps efforts. You will learn about the EventStorming processes, how to facilitate an EventStorming workshop, and effectively share FinOps knowledge with other teams.

EventStorming, FinOps style

EventStorming is a low-tech activity typically associated with the domain-driven design of software architecture. This is a tactical tool that teams use to share business domain knowledge that helps to design the software components of a system.

During an EventStorming session, participants identify and map the business process to support a business function. They outline a series of domain events, represented by sticky notes over a certain period. As the participants work through the session, they model the stakeholders, commands, external systems, software dependencies, and more...