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4 August 2025, 16:37
2025-08-04
“The task was simple, but critically important: to prevent the new regulation from turning into a bureaucratic mess.” Strimco CEO comments on changes in Ukrainian GovTech in connection with the “death of Soviet GOST”
Strimco CEO Roman Lansky called Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 205 a «quantum leap forward» and «official decommunization of GovTech.»
Strimco CEO Roman Lansky called Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 205 a «quantum leap forward» and «official decommunization of GovTech.»
«While Ukraine was launching „Diya“, Prozorro, „eVidnovlenie“ — from year to year, a kind of 34th GOST lived on (continued every year): a group of standards that regulated RM processes and documentation for up to 200 products. Some of them are from 1989, the newest from 1992. And all our digital reforms had to take into account these requirements, which was very annoying,» he wrote on his Facebook account.
Lansky published a list of changes that are a consequence of the adoption of CMU Resolution No. 205.
Less paperwork. Only technical requirements and terms of reference instead of the 7 mandatory documents that were previously required;
No licensing royalties;
The ability to choose any development methodology, not just waterfall;
We have abandoned outdated USSR standards — we are switching to modern international ISO and IEEE standards;
Many security changes, transitional things from CSII to normal ISMS;
Documentation can be electronic. Use Git, clouds, open source — everything is official.
According to the CEO of Strimco, there was a significant risk that rudimentary Soviet norms would continue to exist in the updated Ukrainian legislation, but this was nevertheless avoided.
«The task was simple, but critically important: to prevent the new resolution from turning into a bureaucratic mess. At the stage of the first drafts, there was everything: „inspection act of the informatization object“, „organizational architecture“ and other things that even sound like an anachronism. They were dragged there with the best bureaucratic intentions, but the result could have been a regulation in which innovation teams would simply choke on papers,» said Roman Lansky.
As is known, on February 21, 2025, the Cabinet of Ministers approved Resolution No. 205 «Some Issues of Creation, Administration and Ensuring the Functioning of an Information Facility.»
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