cplace Experts in Germany
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Ole H.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager at Rail-Flow GmbH
The client operates a SaaS platform for managing rail and intermodal transport (Rail-Flow Transport Management Platform).
For two of its customers, it was looking for a 3-month project management replacement. Both customers offer rail and intermodal transport services. Implementation progress differs: one customer is already live and wanted its Phase 2 enhancements implemented; the other customer is implementing its MVP and entering an intensive testing phase.
As part of the assignment, project management was taken over, including management of the internal development team (offshore Turkey).
- Took over complete project management for 2 customer projects, including the roles of Product Owner and Co-Scrum Master
- Managed agile implementation teams consisting of business analysts, implementation consultants, developers (offshore) and QA staff
- Ensured compliance with and further development of project governance
- Planning and rollout management: creation and maintenance of project and rollout plans as well as coordination of role assignments with the client’s management
- Requirements and change management: management of contractual requirements, bugs and changes
- Customer and project communication: organization and moderation of status meetings and steering committees
- Identification of project risks, initiation of countermeasures and escalation
- Ensured correct and timely invoicing for project services together with Finance
Methods: Scheduling (forward- and backward-based), including milestone planning, structured interviews, multi-project management (in English)
Tools / Technologies: Jira, Confluence / Atlas, Claude (Skills, Artifacts), MS Outlook
Saša B.
Last position:
Programme mentoring and advisory support at Credendo
Retained by the client as external advisory anchor following build-up and handover of the programme. I continued to serve as an external mentor/advisor to the internal programme manager, focusing on
- governance,
- risk and dependency management,
- stakeholder alignment,
- delivery discipline and
- change adoption.
Steffen R.
Last position:
Consultant, Coach, Trainer at Endless Digital Media GmbH
- CEO coaching on role clarity, delegation, and team accountability within the company
- Implementing effective communication patterns across the organization
- Guiding the formation of new agile teams
- Agile leadership training
- Workshops on team communication
- Role-specific workshops
- Driving cultural change through effective communication patterns
- Enabling self-managing teams
- Reducing the CEO's workload
- Establishing a learning organization with regular improvement cycles through retrospectives and self-organized mini-workshops
- Increased leadership effectiveness
- More efficient customer communication
Christoph K.
Last position:
Project Management/PMO/Multi-Project Management/Program Management at kmc - Koldehoff Management Consulting
- Industry focus: Automotive, IT, Chemicals, Insurance, IT Security
- Project planning & portfolio management with MS Project and cplace
- Implementation and operation of an Information Security Management System (ISMS)
- Process management (modeling & optimization) with BIC
- Delivery of automotive driver assistance systems (ADAS)
- Change management (evaluation to go-live)
- Migration projects and risk management
- IT development (SAP S4Hana, embedded software) using Scrum, Agile and Waterfall
- Data modeling (top-down, bottom-up, re-engineering)
- Master data management (infrastructure, interface, BPM, GPM)
- Customer relationship processes (CRM, ERP)
- Material data management (MDM) regarding consistency and quality
- Digital asset management (content, structure, standard metadata)
- Sales management (service policy, CRM, key account management, vendor management)
Patrick J.
Last position:
Functional Safety Manager in Plattform E³ 1.2 at Cariad SE
Functional Safety Manager E³ 1.2 – Ensuring functional safety for various clusters in E³ 1.2
Coordination of subcontractors, release planning, ensuring ISO26262 compliance, ensuring adherence to project milestones, assessment planning, tracking and review of FuSI work products
Tools: Jira/Confluence: Activity tracking/documentation, cPlace FuSi: Functional Safety Management, GroupDMS: Configuration Management, Doors: Requirements Engineering, Stages: Process Management
Jan-Philipp S.
Last position:
IT Project Management Coach (Freelance) at The Project Coach
- Set up and manage complex project and rollout structures (SAP, cloud, portfolio) for large public sector programs
- Provide professional leadership to interdisciplinary teams (up to 30 people)
- Coaching and advising project and program managers
- Facilitation of national and international workshops and committees
- Set up and manage backlog, risk, and dependency management; meeting and agenda structures
- Lead cross-functional teams and facilitate steering formats
- Coordinate individual transformation projects across multiple broadcasters
- Use various project and portfolio management tools (ServiceNow, Planview, Cplace, Clarity, Jira, Confluence)
- Develop rollout scenarios; manage pilot and full-scale go-live
- Responsible for change and communication concept, as well as organizational training (train-the-trainer, key-user network)
- Central control and harmonization of rollout activities across five broadcasters; standardization of project management methods, risk management, and integration management
Frank N.
Last position:
Developer at In-house development of the HAPPYLIST web application
- Fully developed a CRM system for contact management in network marketing
- Enabled configuration of tags, custom reminders, birthday reminders and more
- Application is productive
- Technologies and methods: Trello, Python, Django, Rest-Framework, Bootstrap, PostgreSQL
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Statistics of experts using cplace
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Top industries
Professional Services, Automotive, Information Technology
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Human Resources
Bachelor's degree or higher
83%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Doctorate
17%
Certifications per freelancer
7
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using cplace
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
cplace experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Professional Services (100%)
- Automotive (86%)
- Information Technology (86%)
- Manufacturing (71%)
- Banking and Finance (57%)
- Insurance (57%)
- Transportation (43%)
- Media and Entertainment (29%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What cplace is
cplace is a low-code platform for creating collaborative planning and management applications. It combines configurable data models, workflows, views and permissions in one environment. Companies use it to replace rigid spreadsheets or custom applications with solutions that can evolve with business processes.
Typical applications
cplace supports planning across complex organizations and connected value chains. Common applications include:
- Project and portfolio planning
- Supply chain and production planning
- Resource, capacity and workforce planning
- Asset, maintenance and service planning
- Program, product and infrastructure management
Platform ecosystem
Experts work with cplace data spaces, business objects, relationships, rules, forms and dashboards. They configure workflows, access rights and reusable components, then connect the platform with systems such as ERP, CRM, data warehouses and identity services. Depending on the solution, integrations use APIs, imports, exports or middleware.
When specialists help
Companies often bring in freelance cplace specialists when a planning model must be designed quickly, several departments need a shared solution or an existing application requires restructuring. Support is also valuable during system integration, data migration, rollout and the transfer of platform knowledge to internal teams. In Germany, collaboration may combine remote delivery with workshops at business or production locations.
Strong delivery practices
Good professionals begin with the planning problem rather than forcing a generic template. They clarify objects, dependencies, responsibilities, scenarios and approval steps before configuring the solution. They also keep data models understandable, document decisions and test permissions, calculations and workflow transitions with real users.
- Translate business processes into maintainable cplace models
- Design clear navigation, views and planning interactions
- Validate integrations, data quality and security rules
- Prepare rollout, documentation and user enablement
Choosing the right expert
Ask for examples involving a similar planning context, comparable integration needs and the people who will operate the solution. A strong specialist can explain trade-offs between configuration and custom extensions, identify risks in the data model and show how changes will be governed. For German organizations, clarify language expectations, workshop availability and coordination with existing IT and business teams.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with cplace? These answers cover the essentials.
cplace is used to create collaborative planning and management applications for areas such as projects, supply chains, production, assets and resources. It helps organizations connect data, rules, workflows and user views without building every application from scratch.
Compared with spreadsheets, cplace provides shared data, permissions, workflows and traceable relationships. Compared with fully custom software, it can shorten configuration cycles, but complex requirements still demand careful modeling, integration design and governance.
A strong cplace specialist should understand process analysis, data modeling, workflow design and user experience. Experience with APIs, ERP or CRM integration, identity management, data migration and change enablement is also useful.
The right level depends on the scope, integration landscape and number of business processes involved. A focused configuration may need a specialist who can model and validate one use case, while an enterprise rollout requires broader expertise in architecture, governance, testing and adoption.
Yes, much of a cplace project can be handled remotely through workshops, modeling sessions, testing and documentation. On-site meetings can still help when specialists need to understand production planning, operational constraints or stakeholder routines; German-language collaboration may be important for some teams.
A cplace integration starts with clear ownership of source data, identifiers, update timing and error handling. Specialists then select suitable APIs, imports, exports or middleware and test mappings, permissions and reconciliation before production use.
Review whether the professional can explain the data model, dependencies, security concept and change process in plain language. Ask for evidence of tested workflows, maintainable configuration, clear documentation and user validation rather than judging the solution by its screens alone.
Before starting with cplace, clarify the business outcome, existing data sources, stakeholder groups, delivery method and decision rights. It is also important to establish access to environments, integration documentation, testing responsibilities and whether workshops in Germany require on-site availability.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used cplace in their recent projects is 120 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 961 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used cplace in their recent projects, 83% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 67% hold at least a Master's degree, and 17% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used cplace in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used cplace in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (57%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used cplace in their recent projects are Professional Services (100%), Automotive (86%), and Information Technology (86%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used cplace in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Product Development (86%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used cplace
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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