The FinOps maturity ladder
Place your organisation on the Crawl, Walk, Run ladder, recognise what is holding it there, and plan the 90 days that move it up.
5 lessons. 1 quiz.
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Crawl: visibility-only orgs
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify a Crawl-stage organization from its symptoms, diagnose the specific gaps holding it at Crawl, and prescribe the four move-up actions that…
Walk: optimization motion
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to identify a Walk-stage organization, recognize the savings-decay pattern that defines it, and prescribe the move to weekly Operate cadence that lifts…
Run: operate cadence compounds
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to recognize Run-stage characteristics, explain the compounding effect of weekly Operate cadence, and assess whether your org's practice is sustainable…
Five anti-patterns at each stage
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to recognize the stage-specific anti-patterns at Crawl, Walk, and Run, identify the cross-stage anti-patterns that worsen at higher maturity, and…
The 90-day move-up plan
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to structure a 90-day plan to move up one maturity stage, write specific milestones with owners and targets, and explain why 90 days is the right horizon.
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