Extracted Content: Joseph Jean: Hmm.
  James Jenkins: Okay. Good morning everybody. Um I'm glad you could all come. I'm really excited to start this team. Um I'm just gonna have a little PowerPoint presentation for us, for our kick-off meeting. My name is Rose Lindgren. I I'll be James Jenkins. Um our agenda today is we are gonna do a little opening and then I'm gonna talk a little bit about the project, then we'll move into acquaintance such as getting to know each other a little bit, including a tool training exercise. And then we'll move into the project plan, do a little discussion and close, since we only have twenty five minutes. First of all our project aim. Um we are creating a new remote control which we have three goals about, it needs to be original, trendy and user-friendly. I'm hoping that we can all work together to achieve all three of those. Um so we're gonna divide us up into three compa three parts. First the functional design which will be uh first we'll do individual work, come into a meeting, the conceptional design, individual work and a meeting, and then the detailed design, individual work and a meeting. So that we'll each be doing our own ideas and then coming together and um collaborating. Okay, we're gonna get to know each other a little bit. So um, what we're gonna do is start off with um let's start off with Amina. Um
  Charles Lenigan: Alima.
  James Jenkins: Alima, sorry, Alima. Um we're gonna do a little tool training, so we are gonna work with that whiteboard behind you. Um introduce yourself, um say one thing about yourself and then draw your favourite animal and tell us about it.
  Charles Lenigan: Okay. Um I don't know which one of these I have to bring with Joseph Jean.
  James Jenkins: Probably both.
  Charles Lenigan: Right, so, I'm supposed to draw my favourite animal. I have no drawing skills whatsoever. But uh let's see, introduce myself. My name is Alima Bucciantini. Um I'm from the state of Maine in the US. I'm doing nationalism studies, blah, blah, blah, and I have no artistic talents.
  James Jenkins: How do you spell your name?
  Charles Lenigan: A_ L_ I_ M_ A_.
  James Jenkins: Thanks.
  Charles Lenigan: Oh, on this project. So let's see if I can get um here. I will draw a little turtle for you all. Not necessarily 'cause it's my absolute favourite animal, but just that I think they're drawable. And you have the pretty little shell going on. Some little eyes. Happy. There you go. That's a turtle.
  Joseph Jean: Yes.
  James Jenkins: So what are your favourite characteristics?
  Charles Lenigan: Um. I I like the whole having a shell thing.
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Charles Lenigan: It's quite cool carry your home around where you go, um quite decorative little animals, they can swim, they can, they're very adaptable, they carry everything they need with them, um and they're easy to draw.
  James Jenkins: Excellent. Shall we just go around the table?
  Carl Ferguson: Uh Okay. Well, my
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Carl Ferguson: uh and I'm Carl Ferguson for the project. Um. And I'll try and draw my favourite animal. I'll I should leave that one on there
  Charles Lenigan: No,
  Carl Ferguson: shouldn't
  Charles Lenigan: you
  Carl Ferguson: I
  Charles Lenigan: can erase
  Carl Ferguson: before
  Charles Lenigan: the
  Carl Ferguson: I
  Charles Lenigan: turtle, it's alright.
  Carl Ferguson: callously rub it off.
  James Jenkins: Might be nice to have them all up there at same time.
  Carl Ferguson: Um I'm not gonna draw it quite to scale um.
  Carl Ferguson: Is that at least identifiable?
  Charles Lenigan: Snake.
  Joseph Jean: Well.
  Carl Ferguson: It's
  James Jenkins: Em
  Carl Ferguson: a whale,
  Charles Lenigan: Well, snake? It's
  Carl Ferguson: yes. Thanks.
  Joseph Jean: Oh my god, it's better than what I'm gonna
  Charles Lenigan: w
  Joseph Jean: be able to do.
  Carl Ferguson: Um and, yeah, all they're quite intelligent um and also they're they're kind of mysterious, like we don't really know much about them or or understand how they work, how they form groups. And I just find them interesting animals.
  Joseph Jean: Take my contraptions with Joseph Jean. Alright, I'm Jessy. I'm from around D_C_ ish sort of in the U_S_. And we're gonna keep the deep sea sort of theme going on, animal. Don't really know how to draw this. Just where can I Mm. Mm. Maybe if I do the water, but how? Sort of give an idea. idea how one would explain this. Mm maybe with some whiskers. Briefly, it's supposed to be a seal. You can imagine it in the water. I like them, because they are like playful and silly sort of have a good time. Not gonna try and pretend like I can get any better than that.
  James Jenkins: Mm 'kay. Mm 'kay? I'm Rose and I'm Project Manager, from California. Um. Hmm.
  James Jenkins: S
  Joseph Jean: It's definitely significantly
  Charles Lenigan: Oh, a cat.
  Joseph Jean: harder once you are doing it.
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah.
  James Jenkins: Um it's actually a coyote. Let's see.
  Charles Lenigan: Right.
  James Jenkins: Let's see,
  Joseph Jean: That's impressive.
  James Jenkins: let's give it a little bit of a snout, I don't know,
  Charles Lenigan: That's
  James Jenkins: some teeth. Yeah.
  Charles Lenigan: That's pretty
  Carl Ferguson: Cool.
  Charles Lenigan: impressive.
  James Jenkins: Oh dear. Yes. I live um I live right across the street from an open space in California. We have coyotes howl all the time. So I really enjoy their their singing, you they're really beautiful animals. Mm. Okay um, moving on to slightly more serious stuff. We're gonna talk about project finances. Um we have a couple we'd like to sell it for about twenty five Euro with the profit aim of um fifteen million Euro um from our sales and because this is such this is for television it's a we have a market range of Internet, like it's an international market range, we don't have to worry about specifics. Um in order to make a profit of this magnitude, we need to um be able to produce each one at a maximum of twelve fifty Euro. So we're selling it for twice what we'd like to produce it for. Okay um, just to generate a little bit of discussion about the project um, I could I'd like to hear about your experiences using ro remote controls, um your first ideas about um creating a new r remote control, what would be the best um like you what are the features that you really like what are the features that you don't like, etcetera, so
  Joseph Jean: Um I hate when there's like four different buttons and you have to press to actually turn on the T_V_ like you have to do one for the power of the T_V_ and then like another one to get the actual screen on and something else to get it all going, I don't know. Now they keep combining all different remotes together, and I don't know if I necessarily like that 'cause I feel like you end up with multimedia overload. I just wanna watch the T_V_
  James Jenkins: Hmm.
  Joseph Jean: um. Always gets lost. Some sort of like device to help you find it.
  Carl Ferguson: I've used, I've used remote controls, for things like T_V_ and the C_D_ player and video recorder and I I guess they're they're pretty neat neat little tools uh. You don't have to get up and walk across the room to change
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Carl Ferguson: a channel. So especially if you're someone really lazy like Joseph Jean they they're pretty nice. Um. I find them they can be a bit annoying, especially, like you know if I'm watching T_V_ I have have to have three separate remote controls of in front of Joseph Jean, you know, one for the T_V_, one for the digital box, one for m the video recorder as well. Um. And also they tend to they tend to be a bit confusing, they've got too many buttons on them uh too too sort of too sort of complicated when all I really wanna do is switch on and off, change the channel, change the volume.
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah um. I agree with having too many remotes around. My dad has a whole drawer at home of remotes for various things, and I don't know how to work half of them um. What's important for Joseph Jean, I guess, is that it's easy to use and that there's not too many buttons, they are not too small, you know you know you need to n to know what you're doing. And one thing I particularly like is if you are not um sort of moving it around to get it to work with the infra-red.
  Joseph Jean: Yeah.
  Carl Ferguson: Yeah.
  Charles Lenigan: Um, I think there is a way around that, but I know in my residence right now the the television you sort of have to walk all around the room to
  James Jenkins: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Lenigan: get it to turn on, so i it's just simpler just to just turn around the T_V_ itself, and I think that's if we're gonna make a remote control, it should actually work for what it's doing. So
  Joseph Jean: What about like batteries and things like that, like are there some remotes that don don't require like batteries or do all remotes require batteries?
  James Jenkins: Um I would imagine
  Charles Lenigan: I know.
  James Jenkins: all of them, but we could but it's possible we could use like a lithium battery um
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah, something
  James Jenkins: that
  Charles Lenigan: that
  James Jenkins: would
  Charles Lenigan: doesn't
  James Jenkins: last a lot longer than like
  Joseph Jean: Mm-hmm.
  James Jenkins: double A_s. Um like tho those are the batteries that are used in a lot of um M_P_ three players now and that kind of thing.
  Joseph Jean: Mm-hmm.
  James Jenkins: Um.
  Charles Lenigan: Mm.
  James Jenkins: Um. Okay, it seems we have a little bit of a conflict over um to uh combining all the remotes cont together versus having f five different remotes. So um like you said you don't like having all the buttons on one on one remote, and yet you don't wanna have five remotes. So how
  Carl Ferguson: Mm.
  James Jenkins: do we work
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah.
  James Jenkins: with that?
  Charles Lenigan: Could we get something that just has No doesn't have all the buttons that you need to program the video recorder or program s other things that I'm not very coherent about, but that just has your major buttons for that work for everything, you know volume control,
  James Jenkins: Mm-hmm.
  Charles Lenigan: on, off, channel changing.
  Joseph Jean: And maybe that spatially divides it, so it's like if you're looki if you're trying to get the T_V_ on that's, you know, like the top thing on the remote, I dunno if d be vertical or horizontal in terms
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah.
  Joseph Jean: of how we're gonna make it, but if it's like all the T_V_ stuff was here, then all the V_C_R_ stuff was here, all the whatever else we
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Joseph Jean: have programmed
  Charles Lenigan: N that way
  Joseph Jean: into it it's all just in its
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah.
  Joseph Jean: separate place and not like all the on buttons together, 'cause then you like, I don't even know what I'm turning on.
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah, and if um if you'd save the more complicated functions maybe for separate remotes that you wouldn't need to use every day.
  Joseph Jean: Mm-hmm.
  James Jenkins: Okay, so
  Charles Lenigan: Um.
  James Jenkins: maybe have like one remote that has the main functions on, off, channel changing, volume, and another rote remote with all the special things. Because
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah.
  James Jenkins: that is one thing that um remotes tend to have buttons that the T_V_s no longer have as well.
  Charles Lenigan: Mm.
  James Jenkins: So
  Carl Ferguson: Yeah.
  James Jenkins: like you have to have them somewhere, 'cause you're gonna m need those special functions occasionally.
  Charles Lenigan: Right.
  James Jenkins: Um but not necessarily on the m the normal remote.
  Carl Ferguson: Can I ask, are we designing a remote control for a television only um,
  James Jenkins: Good question.
  Carl Ferguson: and if if this device is just to be used for the television would we even technically be possible to include video recorder functions on it?
  James Jenkins: I don't know
  Carl Ferguson: Um
  James Jenkins: that yet.
  Carl Ferguson: or should we just stick to just stick to having television television related buttons on
  Charles Lenigan: Mm.
  Carl Ferguson: it?
  James Jenkins: It's a good question. Um.
  Joseph Jean: Mm-hmm
  James Jenkins: I'll look into
  Joseph Jean: hmm.
  James Jenkins: that. If I can.
  Joseph Jean: I think it's just T_V_, I mean, if it if we're taking it just new product a new television remote control that's not like doesn't say.
  Charles Lenigan: Mm yeah.
  Joseph Jean: You know, things might be more advanced than that.
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Carl Ferguson: So we should maybe we should assume that i t it's just a television that we're wanting to control. Well, I mean I suppose it would be nice to have playing and record and stop buttons on it for the video recorder as well I I don't know if that works technologically or not.
  Charles Lenigan: Yes. I guess we have to define what what we're aiming for. If it's just a television then that it's a bit simpler, 'cause there's less buttons that would even need to be on it.
  Carl Ferguson: Yeah.
  Joseph Jean: It's an idea with the buttons being really.
  Charles Lenigan: Large.
  Joseph Jean: Yeah.
  Charles Lenigan: If you have older people or people like Joseph Jean that aren't very co-ordinated hand-eye, it's really quite important that you are
  James Jenkins: Mm.
  Charles Lenigan: not pressing a small like teeny mobiles phone size buttons,
  Carl Ferguson: Yeah.
  Charles Lenigan: if we can help it.
  James Jenkins: Okay. 'Kay sounds like we've had a good little discussion for our first ideas. Mind if we move on? Ps
  Carl Ferguson: 'Kay.
  Joseph Jean: Mm-hmm.
  James Jenkins: mm okay. Um now our next meeting starts in thirty minutes. I believe we've actually been only working on this this one for about twenty, so we can
  Charles Lenigan: Hmm.
  James Jenkins: continue discussing more new ideas if you'd like um, breakdown of what we'll be doing individually. Um the industrial design, Alima will
  Charles Lenigan: Yeah.
  James Jenkins: be doing um the working design. Um Carl Ferguson, that's for. Technical functions, I guess like keeping in mind the buttons thing, the size of the buttons. Um user requirements um, so you'll be hearing about different trends, uh about different things that people need, um I guess kind of the same uh discussion that we've been having, we'll
  Joseph Jean: Mm-hmm.
  James Jenkins: get from the actual consum s consumers. Mm 'kay um. And you will get specific instructions sent by your personal coach. I realised in this past one we we didn't have much, we just wanted to get a little brain-storming done. Um so very exited to see all your animals and how what wonderful um artists we all are um. Any questions?
  Carl Ferguson: What we're gonna be discussing at the next meeting? Do we know that?
  James Jenkins: I haven't gotten an agenda yet, um I'll put that together. I'm sure
  Carl Ferguson: Right.
  James Jenkins: as we'll each get our own instruction and then um because what we gonna do is first our individual actions and then we'll come back together.
  Carl Ferguson: Yep.
  James Jenkins: So I'm
  Charles Lenigan: 'Kay.
  James Jenkins: sure we'll all have more concrete things to contribute next time
  Carl Ferguson: Yep.
  Charles Lenigan: I'm sure we'll be busy.
  James Jenkins: Mm 'kay um I'll type up mi minutes and probably email those out to all of you.
  Carl Ferguson: Okay.
  James Jenkins: Um just including all the things that we talked about.
  Carl Ferguson: Can
  James Jenkins: Um.
  Carl Ferguson: you e-mail your slides as well? Is that possible?
  James Jenkins: Yes, I yes, I think I can. Mm-hmm.
  Carl Ferguson: Cool.
  James Jenkins: I'll just attach it to an email. And you're you're number two,
  Charles Lenigan: I'm two.
  James Jenkins: three, four?
  Joseph Jean: I'm four.
  James Jenkins: Is that correct? Okay.
  Charles Lenigan: Alright.
  James Jenkins: Excellent. It was lovely meeting you all.
  Carl Ferguson: 'Kay
  James Jenkins: Just make sure you keep checking the company web site and the emails.
  Charles Lenigan: 'Kay.
  James Jenkins: Let Joseph Jean see if I can do that right now.
Updated Content: James Jenkins opened the meeting and introduced herself to the team. James Jenkins introduced the upcoming project in which the team is to create a remote control. The team members participated in a tool training exercise in which they each drew their favorite animal on the white-board and discussed why they liked the animal. James Jenkins then talked about the project finances and discussed selling prices, profit aim, market range, and production costs. James Jenkins then led the team in a discussion on their experiences with remotes and what features they would like to include in the remote they are producing. The team members discussed the option of combining remotes and how to produce a remote which is capable of controlling multiple devices.