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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.
When you are speaking with executives and you're trying to convince them of something, you should bring only one or two arguments. Nothing more. On the other side, when you are trying to convince technical people, at that point you want to bring many more arguments. This is extracted from a research and the summary provided in HBR, the Harvard Business Review. And the researchers said that to build a convincing argument you need to understand what your audience values.
Frank:In expertise driven settings like technical decision or risk reviews, a richer case can help. In contexts where audiences are wary of spin like contentious internal changes or consumer marketing, a concise, well chosen set of arguments may actually be more effective. The research came from 15 reasons you should read this paper: how providing many arguments increase perception of both expertise and persuasive intent. It was published on the Personality and Social Psychology built in 2025 by Abigail Bergmann.