The Project which is handled by you is in RED, customer has
given you 4 weeks to show improvement, still nothing has
worked out. The Customer again gives 3 weeks to improve and
you do your best to improve, but nothing works out. Now the
customer is not at all happy, HOW TO CONVINCE THIS
CUSTOMER ???
Answer Posted / sks
First i will analyse the reason why each time delayed my
project & in parallel i will sort out other issues also
during these seven weeks. Then i will talk to customer that
i can not be possible becaus eof this reason so pls give us
realistic time to close this issue & i will show some other
improvemet points to in other issues.
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