Capital Reformation

Name: Capital Reformation
Author: Derris Taylor
ISBN: IFO4-LIB-CR-1.1.0

A Federation Manifesto for the Practice of Financial Operations

by Derris Taylor . International Federation of Financial Operations Officers

Versionv1.1.0

A working manifesto for the federation of practitioners who run the operating surface of the modern firm. Twelve chapters argue that capital is overdue for the kind of institutional reformation the Pentagon underwent in the 1970s and 1980s, and that the practitioners of FinOps, SecOps, DevOps, and Observability are the field's reformers. Channels Boyd, Sprey, Spinney, Burton, and Christie. The first book in the IFO4 Living Library.

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Published2026-04-27

Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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About the author

Derris Taylor is the founder of the International Federation of Financial Operations Officers and the author of the federation manifesto. Derris has spent more than a decade running the operating surface of cloud-native firms and writes from the practitioner's seat. He chairs the editorial board of the Living Library and serves on the federation's constitutional working group.

Derris writes in the open. Federation members can challenge, endorse, or extend the manifesto through the discussion drawer that hangs off every chapter and paragraph. The author reads every challenge.

Changelog

Capital Reformation Changelog

v1.1.0 . 2026-04-27 . Reformer's Revision

This revision corrects the framing of v1.0.0. The first public edition was an honest attempt at the manifesto but it never named the tradition it was working in, and the working text suffered for the silence. Capital Reformation is, in the author's intent, to financial operations what the Defense Reformation Movement was to the Pentagon in the 1970s and 1980s. Boyd, Sprey, Spinney, Burton, and Christie were the practitioners who put the truth on the record about how the procurement system was actually behaving, and they paid for it with their careers. v1.1.0 names them, names their tools, and translates those tools to the practice of FinOps, SecOps, DevOps, and Observability. The OODA loop, the simpler-cheaper-lethal doctrine, the plans-versus-reality framework, the live-fire test, the operational test discipline, and the Color Guard era now appear by name and are mapped directly onto the federation's standards and the practitioner's daily work.

The structure of twelve chapters is preserved, but every chapter is rewritten. The total word count rises from roughly 9,250 to roughly 12,917 because the prose required by the new framing is denser and more argumentative. v1.0.0 is deprecated as of this publication and is preserved in the Living Library for diff and lineage purposes only. New citations should reference v1.1.0. The Sigstore anchor on this revision is independent of the anchor on v1.0.0 and the source markdown of v1.1.0 carries its own SHA-256 fingerprint, recomputed automatically by the version-store on read.

What is in v1.1.0

Chapter 1. The Reformers
Chapter 2. Plans Versus Reality
Chapter 3. Simpler, Cheaper, More Numerous
Chapter 4. The OODA Loop For Finance
Chapter 5. Pentagon Wars, Cloud Edition
Chapter 6. The Color Guard Era
Chapter 7. The UFMS
Chapter 8. TGS And The Threat Surface
Chapter 9. MEV And The Money In Motion
Chapter 10. The Score
Chapter 11. The Federation
Chapter 12. The Reformation Continues

License

The manuscript remains released under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0. Practitioners and firms are free to reuse, adapt, and republish under the same license, with attribution to the author and the federation.

Forthcoming

Subsequent versions will revise, expand, and supersede this edition. Each revision will publish a full diff, a complete changelog, and an open discussion thread anchored to the chapter and paragraph that changed.

Citation

@book{taylor2026_capital-reformation_v1_1_0,
  author       = {Derris Taylor},
  title        = {Capital Reformation},
  subtitle     = {A Federation Manifesto for the Practice of Financial Operations},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {International Federation of Financial Operations Officers},
  edition      = {First Public Edition, Reformer's Revision},
  isbn         = {IFO4-LIB-CR-1.1.0},
  url          = {https://documentation.ifo4.org/library/capital-reformation/v/1.1.0},
  note         = {Living Library version 1.1.0, anchored b21b84774776e8f8}
}

IFO4-LIB-CR-1.1.0 . v1.1.0