On new technologies and launching your own project: interview with Ivan Shumi...

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Which areas of activity will be automated in the near future, which employees are in short supply, and what skills need to be developed to always be a sought-after specialist — we asked Ivan Shumilov, founder of the ABIVEE process management platform, finalist and ambassador of the All-Russian competition " Digital Breakthrough " of the organization "Russia — the Land of Opportunities", to answer these questions as part of the podcast "How is this possible?"

It is difficult to imagine a world without new technologies: smart homes, robots on page seo service in production, and driverless cars. What areas will be automated in the near future?
Wherever there is a systemic routine and simple mechanics are performed. In the near future, these areas will be automated and transferred to the IT area. And in those areas where there is no systemicity and constant cyclicity, it takes quite a long time to coordinate various areas, including just offline systematization, while it will be difficult to implement automation. These processes are the most difficult in the IT area when creating any product.




You have your own product. What kind of specialists are you currently experiencing a shortage of at the intersection of specialties and technologies?
I wouldn't say that there is a shortage of specialists, rather there is a lack of experience and expertise, we have to train them, bring them out of creativity into a more systemic channel in order to establish high-quality communication between teams. These are the main qualities - soft skills, which are needed now by any employee. So that people can communicate correctly, interact, communicate and effectively complete tasks.

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How to acquire such skills if a person already has an education and established patterns.
Practical skills can be developed, for example, by taking part in the Digital Breakthrough competition of the Russia — Land of Opportunities platform, in which I just won. The peculiarity of this hackathon is that to pass the stages you need not only to code, but also to interact with a large team, which consists of different specialists — managers, designers, marketers. You are given a certain task, there is already a potential large customer such as Rosatom, and you begin to work on the implementation of cases. This way you can get your first experience and create a finished product in three days. Then you can continue working with the same team and then go sell this solution. The Digital Breakthrough competition acts as a kind of springboard into entrepreneurial activity, you create a product in a short time and enter the market with it.

Why did you decide to launch your own project?
I came from entrepreneurship to the IT sphere. Before that, we were engaged in consulting and professional services, helped implement various tools, including setting up contextual advertising in Yandex. Then we saw one basic problem - the number of services is growing, and the functionality in them is used only by 10%, the rest is not needed by users. We understand that it is very difficult to organize a full-fledged working environment - a dashboard in which you can functionally manage processes in one place. It is impossible to create a tool that will aggregate this functionality and show parts of interfaces from different services. This is a big problem that we are trying to solve. Our team is developing a full-fledged dashboard in which an ordinary user can quickly automate work and aggregate processes in one system. We found this pain, began to design a solution, and then we were invited to the Digital Breakthrough competition. We won the hackathon, received a grant for the development of this solution and continue to work on the product.