Every trading firm has a graveyard of stalled system implementations, and almost none of them died for technical reasons. This hub collects The Trading Narrative's essays on delivery: the unglamorous discipline of getting a complex platform, an ETRM replacement, a power desk build-out, a compliance stack, from contract signature to a desk that actually uses it.
The essays draw on years spent as a product manager inside these programmes. They cover the mechanics that determine outcomes: how to run system demos with the people who will type the nominations rather than their managers, why lifecycle design beats big-bang cutovers, what Agile and SAFe actually contribute on a regulated trading floor (and where they get in the way), and how compliance requirements should shape architecture from day one rather than being bolted on in month eleven.
If you are accountable for a delivery, as a sponsor, a product owner, a programme lead, or the engineer holding the critical path, these essays are field notes from someone who has carried that pager. Premium members get the full library.
The licence is the smallest number in the deal. A line-by-line breakdown of what Endur, Allegro, and RightAngle programmes actually cost once you count integration, data, people, and the upgrade treadmill, from someone who has signed the change orders.
Anish PujariSep 7, 2026 6 min read
All three ETRMs now live under one owner, and every RFP still treats them as rivals. After a decade of implementations, here is how Endur, Allegro, and RightAngle actually compare where it matters: commodity fit, compliance, AI, upgrade pain, and the total cost nobody puts on the first slide.
Anish PujariSep 7, 2026 7 min read
The system does not crash. The business quietly works around it. Why the first 90 days decide an implementation's fate and what the firms that get it right do differently.
Anish PujariAug 27, 2026 7 min read
Not exotic credentials: the translation layer, data fluency, regulatory literacy, implementation experience, and the ability to operate in ambiguity.
Anish PujariAug 27, 2026 7 min read
The gap between what was sold and what gets delivered is where careers are made and lost. The questions to ask before, during, and after an ETRM implementation.
Anish PujariAug 27, 2026 5 min read
Compliance is not a phase you add at the end, it is a property of every design decision from sprint one. What twelve years of ETRM delivery teaches about building the systems behind a power desk.
Anish PujariAug 8, 2026 21 min read