Context

Motocho is a crypto platform that allows to trade from one account on multiple exchanges and gets benefits from automated arbitrage.

Problem

The product exists for 2.5 years, but previously made decisions were not strategical and created a bottleneck now. I tracked for five months number of bugs related to banking and it was a lot of tasks related to the current banking system. On monthly retro with the management team, we discussed this. Based on the current situation and future product needs we decided to rebuild banking system and integrations, because of:

• architecture is not scalable;
• the system has a lot of bugs and the team spends 2–3 days each sprint to patch it;
• chosen vendors cost too much;
• no documentation for the current system at all.

Strategy plan

This project is big enough and I decided to split it into few parts:

1. long term plan;
2. short terms plan;
3. current.

First of all, I and founder discussed what we what from banking in general and its role in the product. This helps me to understand what we want to achieve in the end and create the system that we will deliver.

Then I made detailed plan with features that we need to have by the end of the 2021. And then I started on the quarterly roadmap and monthly tasks backlog.

This approach to the product allows me to deliver the system piece by piece and have a consistent product without patches and workaround solutions in the future.