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Field notes from Shriram IT Ventures delivery work on FinTech: Vendor Evaluation Rubric: the constraints that matter, the shortcuts that haunt you, and a checklist we still use.
Who this is for
Ship a thin vertical slice, measure, then widen. Big-bang rewrites rarely survive the first month of real traffic.
Decisions that still look smart in 18 months
Ignore the buzzwords. For FinTech: Vendor Evaluation Rubric, the hard constraint is usually data ownership or ops capacity — not how many features fit on a roadmap slide.
Build checklist we actually use
Ship a thin vertical slice, measure, then widen. Big-bang rewrites rarely survive the first month of real traffic.
Failure modes we keep seeing
Teams that write trade-offs down before coding burn fewer sprints when a stakeholder changes their mind mid-build. We keep ADRs short on purpose.
How we measure rollout
Ship a thin vertical slice, measure, then widen. Big-bang rewrites rarely survive the first month of real traffic.
We update this when delivery patterns change on live client work.