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The Billing Line: How Cost Allocation Shapes Tech Decisions

The Billing Line: How Cost Allocation Shapes Tech Decisions

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 In most organizations the engineering ticket, the cloud bill, and the product roadmap converge at a single, underappreciated place: the billing line. Who sees and pays which costs shapes technical trade-offs, influences product choices, and quietly decides which risks are acceptable. In this episode Mirko Peters walks both sides of that aisle: the business view (budget ownership, predictability, and accountability) and the IT view (cost drivers, measurement, and operational consequences). Using a concise generalized vignette—an analytics pipeline that ballooned because costs were invisible—Mirko shows how cost signals distort decisions and create perverse incentives. Listeners get a practical Cost-Responsibility Matrix to map who feels which charges, simple heuristics to pick showback versus chargeback, and three lightweight actions teams can try this week to turn cost visibility into better decisions, not blame. Clear, non-technical, and immediately useful, the episode helps leaders treat money as signal, not sword. If this episode helps, leave a review and follow Mirko on LinkedIn.

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