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🔴 Before: Product almost ready for market. Top-technology. Sales team euphoric.

Many product projects initially focus on functionality, design and time-to-market. Only in the second step is the central question addressed: 

A client recently said to me:

"Product compliance feels like a Kinder-Überraschungs-Ei /grab bag. You never quite know what's inside, but most times it's not what you'd hoped for."

Sometimes it is treated like the pages in a novel that you skip to get to the exciting parts faster. But in the world of Product Compliance, technical documentation is neither a side note or decoration, but rather the inner compass of a product.

In many companies, product compliance still ends up in purchasing. Sounds pragmatic, but it's like a house of cards in a crosswind. Why?

This year, I left my employee job and started my own business.
Courageous? Yes.
Elegant? Not really.

“We've always done it this way.”
A sentence that sounds like a friendly stop sign in the world of Product Compliance.

“Please provide the complete technical documentation. Preferably yesterday.”
Sounds familiar? Welcome to the everyday life of many compliance teams. Between customer requirements, market requirements and legal requirements, one thing often gets lost: true collaboration on equal terms.

Why is collaborative cooperation with suppliers so important in the field of Product Compliance?

"We just need the CE mark."
I hear this sentence more often than I would like. But behind this small claim lies a big chain of issues, which often doesn't start within your own company, but with the supplier.

“When something changes, Product Compliance changes too.”

This rule sounds trivial, but it packs a punch. Because in practice, this is precisely the most common Product Compliance mistake:
People think that because a product was once compliant, it will remain so forever.
Thats Wrong.

For many, Product Compliance is a mysterious field full of rules, tests, and uncertainties. No wonder that all kinds of myths surround this topic, which are not only annoying but can also be really dangerous.

Here are my top 5 myths that we should definitely bury so that teams and products remain truly safe and compliant.