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There is a certain irony in the fact that IT professionals try to protect their children from the negative impact of gadgets, online games and social networks. The examples of technobillionaires, founders and top managers of large technology companies are especially illustrative in this regard. For example, Steve Jobs kept children away from the iPads produced by his own company, Bill Gates forbade children from using mobile phones under the age of 14, and Mark Zuckerberg strictly limited his children’s screen time on social networks to avoid «doomscrolling».

The Ministry of Economy, together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, announced the launch of a beta test of a new digital labor market ecosystem called «Obriy». This was announced during the presentation by the Minister of Economy Oleksiy Sobolev and the Acting Minister of Digital Transformation Oleksandr Bornyakov.

Recently, the Association of Manufacturers of Unmanned Systems and Related Technologies «ARMADA» shared information that is extremely useful for businesses and owners of critical infrastructure facilities in wartime — how to organize the work of private air defense in accordance with current legislative requirements.

There’s a long-standing joke in civilian IT that any project sooner or later turns into a struggle with legacy code, endless approvals, and a calendar filled with sonnets and status meetings. Large companies spend years building processes that are supposed to make development predictable, but often slow it down so much that months pass from the appearance of an idea to its implementation. Ukrainian miltech today lives in a different reality. When a product is tested not in a focus group, but in real combat conditions, and a request from the military can come in the evening with a requirement to receive a solution the next day, the usual corporate rules begin to work differently. That is why defense technology companies are gradually forming their own development culture — faster, tougher, and much less tolerant of processes for the sake of processes. dev.ua spoke with representatives of SKIFTECH, Himera, BlueBird, DevDroid, WIY LLC, The Fourth Law, and Odd Systems to understand how modern defense tech teams actually work, whether they need Scrum and PM, how they use AI, and why combining hardware and software remains one of the industry’s most difficult engineering challenges.