Project management looks clean on paper. Gantt charts, milestones, KPIs, risk matrices. Automotive project management looks similar, until you actually do one. In general terms, project management skills are well known, scope definition, planning, communication, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and execution discipline. These are universal and transferable across industries. Enough pages where written about that to circle the earth. Automotive project management si similar, but it doesn’t forgive shallow understanding and it amplifies every weakness. Automotive projects live at the intersection of hardware, software, regulation, and long-term liability . A delay is not just a delay, it can mean missing a model year. A design flaw isn’t a patch, it’s a millions of US Dollars recall. Decisions made early echo for a decade. What does that mean for a project manager? First, process literacy is non-negotiable . ASPICE, ISO 26262, PPAP, SOTIF, these aren’t buzzwords. They shape ho...