Steering projects, leading teams, delivering results.
Together with its partner, ANKORATEC offers experienced project management and engineering management for development projects. Whether classic, agile or hybrid – management is practical, technically sound and results-oriented. Backed by 30 years of automotive engineering experience as mechanical engineer, project manager, team leader and AGILean Master.
Classic project management
- Project planning with structure, milestones and resources
- Schedule, cost and quality control
- Stakeholder management and escalation
- Supplier and customer management
- Reporting and status tracking
- Risk management throughout the project
- Change management and claim support
- Root cause analysis, Six Sigma tools
Agile management for mechanics / mechatronics
- AGILean concept for mechatronics and product development
- Kanban implementation for hardware teams
- Hybrid approaches (classic + agile combined)
- Interim roles: trainer, product owner, AGILean Master
- Introduction support until the team works independently
- Impediment management and continuous improvement
Interim team leadership
- Technical leadership of engineering teams (3–12 months)
- Building new teams and structures
- Bridging vacancies or absences
- Handover to permanent staff
- Staff development and onboarding
Project recovery
- Analysis of critical project situations
- Immediate measures and stabilisation
- Re-planning and resource adjustment
- Stakeholder communication in a crisis
- Restoring delivery capability
Sparring for project managers
- Exchange of experience as equals
- Review of critical decisions
- Solving impediments together
- Support in difficult stakeholder situations
Our approach
- Hands-on instead of slide-deck consulting
- Technical background instead of pure management knowledge
- Results-oriented, not in love with methods
- Pragmatic and actionable
- Bridging classic and agile as required
- Leading by example and experience
Typical project results
- Projects on track (schedule, cost, quality)
- Functioning team structures
- Clear responsibilities and processes
- Established reporting and escalation paths
- Independently working teams after handover
- Documented lessons learned
Added value for the customer
- No standstill during vacancies
- Rapid stabilisation of critical projects
- Experience without long onboarding
- Knowledge transfer to your own staff
- Flexibility without permanent employment
- Reduced project risk
Typical applications
- Development projects without their own project manager
- Bridging team leader vacancies
- Stabilising projects in difficulty
- Agile transformation in engineering
- Building new development teams
- Launch and industrialisation projects
Methods & frameworks
- Classic PM (waterfall, stage-gate)
- AGILean (agile for hardware development)
- AI support (AI as advisor, master, PO or coach)
- Kanban / agile boards for engineering teams
- Hybrid approaches according to project needs
Interfaces to other modules
- Module 2 – Mechanical Design & Detail Engineering
- Module 8 – Sample Building, Prototypes & Industrialisation
- Module 10 – FMEA with AI Assistants (Risk Management)
Project leadership · Project management · Interim management · Team leadership · AGILean · Kanban · Engineering management · Project recovery · Automotive · Mechatronics · Product development