Steve,
Although this is a Bad news coming, I would like to share the info below with you guys.
We are already in a difficult situation in terms of the project A. Actually,
we are already in more than 1 month behind the schedule. I don't know how
much Mr. Rabbit has reported you so far. But Here is the background and
my impression so far.
Background
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Regarding the project A, ABC Corporation and XYZ Corp. has had a lot of
meetings since the program began. In ABC stand point, Since XYZ has all
the responsibility in the device installation, XYZ should work hard to
propose the system so that the
installation can proceed smoothly. However, in XYZ stand point, XYZ
understands where the responsibility belongs to ( in XYZ of course). But,
XYZ cannot design the system unless the requirement from ABC is appropriately
defined to the extent to the details such as the interface between the
computer and the wiring harness. Such a time consuming discussion between
ABC and XYZ has been repeatedly conducted, which caused the development
to be holded up.
My impression so far
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To be honest, ABC and XYZ have not built up the trustful relationship in terms of the project development. Actually, (I don't want say this,though) XYZ doesn' t trust Mr. Rabbit (ＨＰ管理者注：Mr. Rabbitはこのレター送信者のsupervisorです）at all. Even me, I am very skeptical about Mr. Rabbit's true intensions with regards to communicating with XYZ so that things can get better.
The only thing ABC (and Mr. Rabbit) has done is to push the responsibility
to XYZ. And XYZ was upset against the attitude and has not done anything
in studying the feasibility of the device integration. XYZ expected Mr.
Rabbit to stand in between so that the technical information can go
back and forth smoothly , however, since He is not an electrical engineer,
he doesn't understand what XYZ actually wants to know, what is expected
and what is going to happen next.
Very last week, the technical meeting just started to review the requirement
together and today we are going to have the second technical meeting. However,
XYZ is still working on preparing the plan how to support the device installation
and is having an internal meeting how to deal with this situation today.
So we have to wait for the outcome from the meeting.
Even me(ABC employee) , It was very difficult to get the appropriate information
from ABC Europe. If XYZ, It would be beyond imagination.
I know how to work with XYZ and questions from XYZ but I don't know how
to work with ABC Europe team yet. My opinion may not still stand neutral,
rather for XYZ...
Action
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Again, The only thing I can do is to wait for the result from XYZ internal
meeting to decide how to deal with this situation including ( I assume)
the counter-timing plan to deliver the sytem proposal. Once the output
is available, we are going to discuss what to do. Probably, we should have
today's meeting as planned, which may require the management level discussion.
That's it so far.
Sorry for the late report.
This is all what I can do so far.
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