How four statements can change how you think about delivering technology that transforms the financial performance of your business.
by Mark McKee and David Wilks, 4th June 2025
In our experience of running both large and small fintech initiatives, we have codified into four statements what made for massive financial success when delivering technology products that align with business strategy.
In a postagile way of thinking we value
- Cost and time commitments over agile story points
- Multi-skilled experts over large teams
- Owner transparency over team ceremonies
- Profit over methodological purity
In this diagram we can see how we start with vision, which is a lot of problem statements for your business. These need to be pared back to the most financially valuable. Next teams conduct product discovery to understand customer needs, risks and capabilities as to whether they can make it work and how long it will take (this does not entail an MPV, but is more about research). Once given the green light, people work to a committed date, communicate frequently about issues/risks and drive hard to getting the feature in the hands of customers to generate the financial returns as quickly as possible.
Where we come in is by working with you to solve the right things to get to financial value as quickly as possible with the minimum of people. Hiring business analysts and QA testers will only get you so far. We are talking about people wearing multiple hats within each small team to focus on whatever it takes to get a single production deliverable that has a target date everyone is committed to. We’ve proven this in the fintech world and it has been the catalyst for truly significant revenue growth. When teams are single-threaded, they can reach for the stars, and leadership want to protect them from distractions so they can achieve the fastest time to money, as postagile is all about profitability.
You can also find out more on postagile.co.uk.
