Friday is here, let's praise ourselves for our efforts 😎

We discussed the year → gathered it in a week. A regional medical project that had been bouncing around offices for months finally went into development 💪

In one week, the team packaged everything that had been stretched out over nearly 12 months of approvals and handed it over for work. The irony is that development will take less time than its discussion 😂

Every piece of the project is an attempt to simplify life for the client. Less manual labor, less headache. And the cherry on top: budget savings in the long run.

22 months for procurement, 2 for work

Gartner estimates that the average cycle for government IT procurement is about 22 months. In commercial, it's 6–7. That's more than three times the difference. The freshness of this study is unknown, but the numbers roughly match reality.

In the public sector, technical specifications are often written not for the product but for GOST standards. An 80–100 page document. 10% about functionality. The rest: standards, guidelines, regulations. Plus mandatory pauses, committee meetings, windows for complaints, procedure restarts. And that's how those 22 months add up.

When the contract is finally signed, only 2–3 months remain for implementation. Reporting can take up to 30% of the work volume because documents go through 3–4 levels of control.

We wanted the best, but it turned out... 🤦‍♂️

The system was designed as protection against unscrupulous contractors. In reality, it ties the hands of those who want to make a decent product.

But problematic companies, thanks to strong lawyers and the ability to work with the wording of technical specifications, often fend off regulatory bodies.
I've seen such a company. They didn't even have developers on staff, and in the end, during code review, it turned out that different people wrote the code each time. Freelancers, apparently 😁
That's the kind of "protection" we have. If a company has more lawyers than specialists, that's the first red flag.

GOSTs are in place, but quality... well, it's a matter of luck 🤷‍♀️

The state spends years describing in detail how to spend money. Then it gives the team 2–3 months to implement everything. The documentation says nothing about product quality, but every GOST is in place.

But we push through and do what people need. And this week, a small victory, for which we can definitely praise ourselves 🔥

Now it's your turn. What feats did you accomplish this week? 👇

@data_dzen🙂