Time commitments

All the difficulties in a different and developing culture taken into account, I am glad there are basics that apply everywhere... like time. Time can be wasted or used anywhere in the world. Today I spent a full day explaining how to plan and take all the problems like lack of water, lack power supply, lack of skill and presence of labor force, etc into account.

It is amazing what an eyeopener it is to simply plan. The sides of the factory are being built while we speak and obviously we asked for a plan of action with the deadline as the first one on the list. Now, keep in mind we have not had a written time line since the start of the project. See last blog...

The planning goes not further than a few minutes, so when they say it will be ready in 5 to 10 days it is nothing more than a WAG (Wild Ass Guess). We had enough wags last year, so we sit with them to work out the details; we get it on paper for them. It works very well, though it feels like helping my own kids getting ready for the swimming pool!! The very basics have to be explained to people working as professionals.

Now, the power struggle is kept in high regards as a valid excuse. And it is true, even at our home we run our appliances 50% of the time on batteries in order to keep the power up.

So here we go again: “Sorry sir, no power"... Now we have this problem at least 2002 as far as we have experiences it, so you would think companies would come up with a solution for this. Anyway, we asked the guys: “what about a cordless, chargeable, drilling machine? "Too expensive sir, my company does not provide that."

So also a way out not to provide within the time line, verbally committed. Very frustrating, but not the end of it!

Tomorrow morning at 7:00am I am bringing them our battery operated drilling machines... Again, we have to supply the supplier with the equipment to enforce a commitment from him, or at least to have him in a position without excuse and, we can continue our planning!

Soon more...