Practitioner

How to Embed Cloud Cost into Your Definition of Done — And Why the FinOps Foundation Just Made It Urgent

The FinOps Foundation just formally named Shift Left in their 2026 Framework. Here is the practitioner's guide to embedding cloud cost governance into your Definition of Done — from someone doing it inside live client engagements right now.

Practitioner

98% of Organisations Now Manage AI Spend. Most Have No Idea What They're Doing. Here's What I'm Doing About It.

FinOps AI Governance Practitioner Guide · March 2026 · The Culture Lab I am not writing this from the sidelines. Right now, I am in active conversation with my CTO about changing how we govern AI spend inside our live delivery programmes. This article is the thinking behind that conversation — the framework