The aim of this article is to help you if you are a new FinOps person in an organization. You want to make an impactful difference in a short time scale. While FinOps is a much bigger story, to get people to begin buying into your longer term strategy you will need to have some quick wins and demonstrate the value of your initiative. At this point you will gain support and investment in the initiative.
If your role is a full time FinOps resource then you may be able to move on this plan in a faster time frame.
🧭 Turbo360 FinOps Onboarding Plan – First 90 Days
🔹 Month 1: Discover & Diagnose
Objective: Understand your cloud environment and uncover cost-saving opportunities.
✅ Key Actions:
Activate Turbo360 Cost Analyzer across all Azure subscriptions.
Run a baseline cost analysis:
Get some budgets in place and monitoring to put guard rails in place to manage your risk
Identify idle, oversized, or misconfigured resources.
Review tag coverage and broken tags.
Spot anomalies or unexpected spikes.
Meet with IT, finance, and business unit leads to understand current pain points.
Digging Deeper
Run the Turbo360 Executive Summary Report to help you communicate back to the stakeholders
Run the Turbo360 Resource Summary report to help you see the impactful cost changes in the last month
Review your top recommendations and see if there are some quick wins that can be actioned
📈 Quick Wins:
Share a Top 10 savings opportunities report.
Highlight any surprise billing risks.
🔹 Month 2: Optimize & Educate
Objective: Drive cost ownership and empower teams.
✅ Key Actions:
Implement Cost Allocation to group resources by team, department, or project.
Set up self-service dashboards for business units.
Schedule weekly cost reviews with application owners.
Introduce anomaly alerts and budget thresholds.
Begin educating teams about how they can use schedules
📈 Quick Wins:
Show how Turbo360 recommendations go beyond Azure Advisor.
Enable teams to track and manage their own spend.
Reduce manual reporting effort for finance.
🔹 Month 3: Automate & Scale
Objective: Build repeatable processes and prepare for long-term FinOps maturity.
✅ Key Actions:
Create a monthly cost and optimization review process.
Set up automated alerts for cost anomalies and budget breaches for every team
Build a FinOps-as-a-Service model if supporting multiple teams or tenants.
Document your processes and build a FinOps playbook using Turbo360.
📈 Quick Wins:
Deliver a report showing savings achieved and forecast improvements.
Launch a FinOps dashboard for leadership visibility you can use the Turbo360 root note on the tree view for this
Propose a roadmap for FinOps maturity (Crawl → Walk → Run).
🧰 Tools You’ll Use in Turbo360
Dashboards: Present user friendly visuals and make cost transparent
Optimization: Deep optimization insights, downgrade recommendations, reservation analysis.
Anomaly Detection: Catch surprise bills before they escalate.
Business Reporting: Align cost data with finance and leadership needs.