Do you want to make your development fit for the future - but without losing productivity? Are you looking for a way to bring agility into your organization in a meaningful way?

We work with you to design a transformation that matches the reality of your product development.

Agility in hardware - does that even fit?

Agility can also include parts lists and maturity levels.


When products become more complex, development processes must also react more flexibly. Many companies are experiencing how rigid processes are reaching their limits - especially where mechanics, electronics and software are intertwined. Agility seems attractive, but does it really suit the world of physical products?

You actually know how your development works. But you don't have the time or the freedom to think it through. This is exactly where we come in: We support you in introducing agile principles in such a way that they fit the reality of your organization - not the other way around.

Our stance

Agility must be connectable


We don't bring any off-the-shelf methods with us, but work with what you already have. We respect established structures - and help to develop them further in a targeted manner. We combine agile principles with your existing product logic: from the PEP to the V-model, from the maturity model to the start of series production.

Our goal is not an agile end in itself, but a development organization that is more focused, more capable and more motivated.

How we work

5 steps to agile development


1. We create orientation.
Together with you, we analyse where agility can dock in your organization. In doing so, we look at processes, decision-making paths, project models - and your goals.

2. We create a common understanding.
Agility means something different for every company. We make sure that your managers and teams start with a clear, shared picture - well-founded, realistic and practical.

3. We implement a pilot that works.
We work with you to develop an initial agile project that is tailored to your product, your team and your processes. And we accompany it - in everyday life, in retrospectives, in management issues.

4 We empower your organization.
We help to introduce new roles, teams and management models. In doing so, we ensure that commitment, controllability and responsibility are maintained.

5. We scale what works.
We work with you to roll out what has proven its worth: to other products, areas or locations - as quickly as makes sense, as stably as necessary.

Why CO Improve is the right partner

What you can achieve with us


Our customers experience how complexity can be better managed. They gain clarity about priorities, increase transparency in their projects and strengthen collaboration within the team.

Above all, however, they build a development culture that not only allows change, but supports it.

We combine agile expertise with a deep understanding of product development - especially in the field of mechatronic systems. Our consultants know your world from their own experience. We don't just think along with you, we think ahead with you. And we support you with attitude, clarity and respect.

Surely product development processes have long been part of the standard repertoire of good R&D management? "That's right!", you will say. However, our consulting experience shows that many product development processes no longer meet the new challenges. Increasing product complexity, modularization, digitalization, the continuously rising proportion of software and the establishment of agile working methods require a further development of existing processes. We will show you how.

Your benefit

What you can achieve with us


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Orientation

You gain clarity about how and where agility makes sense in your organization - without dogma, with an eye for what is feasible.

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Security

You introduce agile principles without jeopardizing your development logic or ability to deliver.

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Effect

They increase transparency, speed and team performance - noticeably in everyday project work.

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Anchoring

They create structures, roles and leadership that enable agile working in the long term.