- Know your cards. It will help you find the right strategy. 

What is the status of my QM system and my technical documentation? A preliminary analysis sets the foundation for planning.

- Those who plan agile and stay agile can react to short-term impacts.

The actual planning should be kept lean. The focus: on the fundamentals. A lot of horsepower belongs on the road, not on a test bench. Your employees' experience and products knowledge is very precious.

- If you want to reach your goal, you have to move. In the right direction. 

You have to get to work quickly. What is meant is the execution. Because it is actually this work that may uncover further pitfalls that cannot be planned in advance. You learn to cycle on a bicycle. Not in theory. 

- A task in close consultation with your Notified Body

Before all specific activities, contact with your notified body is crucial. Your submission timeframe must be well coordinated with your certifier.