Extracted Content: Kevin Hovey: Oops.
  Douglas Benfield: So, hello everyone. We're here to have a kick-off meeting for the design of a f for the beginning of new project um uh remote control for the design for a new remote control. I'm Douglas Benfield Christa Pavlov and okay let's begin. So I'm first going to do an opening then we get used to one anothers and we speak about this tool we're going to design and try to make a project plan, some discussion and then we talk of uh the next meeting. So um we want to to do a new remote control. It has to be original, trendy and user friendly. Um I think the important points we have to t talk about are uh it's functional design, it's conceptual design, and desail detailed design. and for that we're going um all to work individually and then have meeting during the whole day. Um, so let's try the whiteboard.
  Stephen Bacon: Wow.
  Douglas Benfield: Um so any of you who want to go.
  Kevin Hovey: Yeah, for favourite animals. It's not favourite one but the I can draw. And it's gonna be you'll try to guess.
  Stephen Bacon: Wow.
  Douglas Benfield: Wow.
  Stephen Bacon: Complex. Huh? A cat.
  Jeffery Oliva: No.
  Kevin Hovey: No.
  Stephen Bacon: No. Darn. Uh.
  Douglas Benfield: A rabbit.
  Kevin Hovey: Yes, that's a rabbit.
  Stephen Bacon: A
  Kevin Hovey: That's
  Stephen Bacon: what?
  Kevin Hovey: my favourite
  Douglas Benfield: A
  Kevin Hovey: one.
  Douglas Benfield: rabbit.
  Stephen Bacon: A r
  Jeffery Oliva: Rabbit.
  Stephen Bacon: a rabbit, oh oh yeah, where is the carrot? Okay
  Kevin Hovey: That's
  Stephen Bacon: mm-hmm.
  Kevin Hovey: it.
  Douglas Benfield: You want to go?
  Stephen Bacon: I am not very good at
  Kevin Hovey: Hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: uh this kind of stuff. My favourite animal is
  Kevin Hovey: Wow.
  Jeffery Oliva: You wa
  Douglas Benfield: A human
  Stephen Bacon: Guess.
  Douglas Benfield: ah.
  Stephen Bacon: A human, yay. It's a very complex animal
  Kevin Hovey: No.
  Stephen Bacon: and um yeah. Characteristics of this this animal is dangerous.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm I think
  Jeffery Oliva: Is
  Douglas Benfield: you're
  Jeffery Oliva: the white
  Douglas Benfield: supposed to, yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: okay.
  Douglas Benfield: Hmm.
  Jeffery Oliva: I guess you can.
  Kevin Hovey: Wow. That's cobra.
  Stephen Bacon: of uh snake? Cobra? Exactly.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah uh not really. Small cobra.
  Kevin Hovey: No, it just small cobra, yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: Uh-huh.
  Douglas Benfield: Is that
  Kevin Hovey: It's
  Douglas Benfield: a worm?
  Kevin Hovey: co c
  Douglas Benfield: Or
  Kevin Hovey: quite recognisable.
  Stephen Bacon: What about you
  Douglas Benfield: Uh yeah Christa Pavlov
  Stephen Bacon: uh Christa?
  Jeffery Oliva: Chris.
  Kevin Hovey: Christa Christa.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: A fish.
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm.
  Kevin Hovey: Hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Smiling fish.
  Jeffery Oliva: Smile fish.
  Stephen Bacon: A smiling fish. Mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Kevin Hovey: Okay.
  Stephen Bacon: So, w whiteboard is working?
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: Good. Next.
  Douglas Benfield: Next. Let's talk about money.
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah, well.
  Kevin Hovey: According to the drawings.
  Stephen Bacon: Not Stephen Bacon.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah,
  Kevin Hovey: Okay.
  Jeffery Oliva: you're
  Stephen Bacon: So.
  Douglas Benfield: So.
  Stephen Bacon: Twenty five Euro for a
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah,
  Stephen Bacon: remote control.
  Douglas Benfield: mm that's the price
  Jeffery Oliva: Hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: we want to that's
  Stephen Bacon: Okay.
  Douglas Benfield: the aim for the price for the remote control. We aim to do this profit.
  Stephen Bacon: 'tis big number.
  Kevin Hovey: On the
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: international market.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah, we're to sell two million then.
  Kevin Hovey: Wow.
  Stephen Bacon: Mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm for a production cost of mm twelve fifty Euros maximum. 'Kay. So any of you have experience in remote controls?
  Stephen Bacon: Uh
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm
  Stephen Bacon: yes,
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: we have plenty at home. In fact, my daughter likes l remote
  Douglas Benfield: That
  Kevin Hovey: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: controls.
  Kevin Hovey: To eat?
  Stephen Bacon: To eat? Yeah, mainly, and to break.
  Douglas Benfield: So that could be a great um application. Remote controls children proof.
  Stephen Bacon: Mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: Ye
  Kevin Hovey: Children
  Stephen Bacon: ye
  Kevin Hovey: proof.
  Stephen Bacon: yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: Hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: So she likes uh buttons
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah,
  Douglas Benfield: Okay.
  Jeffery Oliva: pret
  Stephen Bacon: which make click, so it has to click.
  Douglas Benfield: So they have to be waterproof
  Stephen Bacon: It has
  Douglas Benfield: maybe?
  Stephen Bacon: to be uh
  Douglas Benfield: 'Cause
  Stephen Bacon: wha
  Douglas Benfield: they
  Stephen Bacon: baby
  Douglas Benfield: eat
  Stephen Bacon: proof
  Douglas Benfield: she ate
  Stephen Bacon: yeah
  Douglas Benfield: it.
  Stephen Bacon: but mainly it has to be very robust because
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: even if
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: she's not very tall she's uh high enough so that uh when she throw it away it's uh
  Jeffery Oliva: Ah.
  Stephen Bacon: So it has to be very robust.
  Kevin Hovey: Okay, unbreakable.
  Stephen Bacon: Unbreakable,
  Kevin Hovey: Uh-huh.
  Stephen Bacon: yeah. Mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: And uh it has to be nice looking,
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: colourful,
  Douglas Benfield: Colourful,
  Stephen Bacon: maybe
  Kevin Hovey: Colourful?
  Douglas Benfield: yeah mm.
  Kevin Hovey: That's not
  Stephen Bacon: colourful,
  Kevin Hovey: practical.
  Stephen Bacon: because
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: uh nobody has colourful
  Douglas Benfield: No, that's
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah, it's
  Douglas Benfield: a
  Stephen Bacon: remote
  Douglas Benfield: good
  Jeffery Oliva: always
  Stephen Bacon: control,
  Douglas Benfield: idea.
  Stephen Bacon: they're
  Jeffery Oliva: black
  Stephen Bacon: always black,
  Jeffery Oliva: or
  Stephen Bacon: yeah,
  Douglas Benfield: Mm
  Kevin Hovey: No.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: mm-mm.
  Stephen Bacon: but this one could be I dunno, purple
  Kevin Hovey: But how
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: gonna
  Stephen Bacon: or b
  Kevin Hovey: okay, just uh but it's uh monochrome it's
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: n it's not like
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah, yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: No,
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: because you think,
  Stephen Bacon: One colour.
  Douglas Benfield: why
  Kevin Hovey: Otherwise
  Douglas Benfield: not.
  Kevin Hovey: you will never find
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: it.
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah,
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah
  Stephen Bacon: yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: even we can change colours, no? Like the uh
  Stephen Bacon: Oh like the phones,
  Jeffery Oliva: like the phones
  Stephen Bacon: yeah,
  Jeffery Oliva: and these
  Stephen Bacon: it
  Jeffery Oliva: things
  Kevin Hovey: Cool.
  Stephen Bacon: could change
  Jeffery Oliva: we c
  Stephen Bacon: colours,
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah. At least for children like
  Kevin Hovey: Ch
  Jeffery Oliva: one colour and.
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah. Good.
  Douglas Benfield: Good idea.
  Jeffery Oliva: And it should be really small and.
  Douglas Benfield: Small also? Don't
  Jeffery Oliva: Huh
  Douglas Benfield: you think
  Jeffery Oliva: not so big like
  Douglas Benfield: No
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: uh, not too much buttons or
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah, not
  Douglas Benfield: mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: too much buttons and
  Stephen Bacon: Should it be, y you know these uh remote controls where um they are what they call a universal ret remote control
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: so y you can decide that now it's the remote control for the television, then it's the remote control for the
  Jeffery Oliva: Uh.
  Stephen Bacon: the sound system, or
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: for your refrigerator whatever
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah,
  Stephen Bacon: I dunno
  Douglas Benfield: that's
  Stephen Bacon: if it's Or if we should have a targeted re remote control.
  Douglas Benfield: Okay. So,
  Stephen Bacon: So
  Douglas Benfield: I
  Stephen Bacon: colour,
  Douglas Benfield: think
  Stephen Bacon: robustness,
  Douglas Benfield: there's
  Stephen Bacon: easy to use, size, yeah, size matters,
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: Colour, size,
  Douglas Benfield: So
  Jeffery Oliva: sh
  Douglas Benfield: you you think it's better if small than bigger.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah,
  Stephen Bacon: Mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: maybe at least n not bigger than this I
  Kevin Hovey: Yeah,
  Jeffery Oliva: guess.
  Kevin Hovey: but without any extremes like n not of this size,
  Douglas Benfield: No,
  Kevin Hovey: not
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah
  Douglas Benfield: not
  Kevin Hovey: too
  Douglas Benfield: too
  Kevin Hovey: large.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah,
  Douglas Benfield: small,
  Kevin Hovey: Okay.
  Douglas Benfield: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: at least it should hold in your hand n properly, like.
  Douglas Benfield: Hmm.
  Kevin Hovey: Yeah, like a palm sized.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: Mm.
  Kevin Hovey: Just to hold it.
  Douglas Benfield: Okay.
  Stephen Bacon: But uh what would be different from this, from the others? I dunno if
  Jeffery Oliva: Uh maybe we can change the colours that at least the frame.
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah, at
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: least the colour
  Jeffery Oliva: S
  Stephen Bacon: would
  Jeffery Oliva: so
  Stephen Bacon: be different.
  Jeffery Oliva: then it depends you are to
  Douglas Benfield: Mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm I mean you c you can easily remove the frame.
  Stephen Bacon: I think one thing important for instance in this remote control if you remember when people use it they're they never find a good button in the right
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah,
  Stephen Bacon: place.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: For some reason they they
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: they click the off button when they want to use the
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: So there's a problem in the design of that kind of remote control somehow,
  Douglas Benfield: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: I
  Douglas Benfield: So,
  Stephen Bacon: dunno.
  Douglas Benfield: some kind of idea uh with um um cellular phone with a a screen that will tell you what
  Kevin Hovey: No, no
  Douglas Benfield: no.
  Kevin Hovey: screens, it's too complex.
  Douglas Benfield: Okay.
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: Too expensive for twelve Euro?
  Jeffery Oliva: Too expensive,
  Kevin Hovey: And n
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: maybe
  Douglas Benfield: And
  Kevin Hovey: not
  Douglas Benfield: too expensive.
  Kevin Hovey: too expensive, well it's not my problem, but well
  Stephen Bacon: Ah.
  Kevin Hovey: okay. But no screens on remote controls.
  Stephen Bacon: Mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: I thought it could be only a screen which would change depending on uh uh the use or even the user. So ma
  Kevin Hovey: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: I prefer to have the off button at the top right,
  Jeffery Oliva: Ye yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: so I would have my own design of the remote control because it's in fact just a a full touch
  Jeffery Oliva: Hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: screen remote control, if you if you like.
  Jeffery Oliva: I mean it
  Stephen Bacon: I don't
  Jeffery Oliva: it's
  Stephen Bacon: know if
  Jeffery Oliva: like
  Stephen Bacon: it makes sense, but
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: it's like two types no? people are right handed or left handed so y because
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah,
  Jeffery Oliva: I am left
  Stephen Bacon: for
  Jeffery Oliva: handed
  Stephen Bacon: instance,
  Jeffery Oliva: I use like
  Stephen Bacon: mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: this, say if you're right handed you use
  Kevin Hovey: Mm-hmm,
  Jeffery Oliva: like this or
  Kevin Hovey: mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: Mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: so
  Douglas Benfield: Mm
  Jeffery Oliva: tha
  Douglas Benfield: mm mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: your switch on and off should be
  Douglas Benfield: So adaptable
  Jeffery Oliva: on yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: yeah
  Kevin Hovey: Adaptable.
  Stephen Bacon: Maybe,
  Douglas Benfield: something
  Stephen Bacon: if if
  Kevin Hovey: Alright,
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm
  Stephen Bacon: it's
  Douglas Benfield: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: possible,
  Kevin Hovey: good,
  Stephen Bacon: yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: so
  Jeffery Oliva: huh.
  Kevin Hovey: how many actions do we need to implement in it?
  Jeffery Oliva: Maybe
  Kevin Hovey: On
  Jeffery Oliva: I think
  Kevin Hovey: off?
  Jeffery Oliva: even we can keep two switches and then
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: we can uh only make one working. We can adapt only one switch, suppose here like we can make two switches and if I'm left-hander I use this switch to follow the main operations.
  Kevin Hovey: I mean if it's less than three uh then we can make it uh like a
  Jeffery Oliva: Two.
  Stephen Bacon: Three buttons you mean?
  Kevin Hovey: like three
  Douglas Benfield: Three
  Kevin Hovey: mental
  Douglas Benfield: option.
  Kevin Hovey: states,
  Stephen Bacon: Ah.
  Kevin Hovey: yeah you know what I mean, we can just make it uh
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah. Yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: Um.
  Kevin Hovey: controlled by a brain, huh?
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: Mm-hmm, yeah,
  Douglas Benfield: Maybe
  Stephen Bacon: sure.
  Douglas Benfield: if it's more, if there is a software inside that ask you three
  Kevin Hovey: Mm-hmm.
  Douglas Benfield: Hmm. If it if we want a r universal remote control that we sa like we say before it may may need more than three mm three button, three mm possibilities,
  Kevin Hovey: Sh
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah, more than
  Kevin Hovey: sure,
  Stephen Bacon: three
  Douglas Benfield: ye
  Stephen Bacon: actions
  Kevin Hovey: sure.
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm
  Stephen Bacon: that
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: you may
  Douglas Benfield: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: want to do at a given time.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: But for standard actions you usually what do you do, you change channels, you adjust volume, and nothing else.
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah but for instance when you change channels you can have you can just go to the next one or go to
  Jeffery Oliva: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: channel twenty five.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: And that's already more complex to go to channel twenty
  Kevin Hovey: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: five.
  Kevin Hovey: You do this?
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: Uh no.
  Kevin Hovey: I usually just change channels.
  Stephen Bacon: Because I'm only using three or four channels but
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah. But they keep generally their t slash slash uh this thing and then the dash dash and then you can put
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah,
  Douglas Benfield: I
  Jeffery Oliva: you can only
  Douglas Benfield: change
  Jeffery Oliva: have one
  Douglas Benfield: channel
  Jeffery Oliva: bit.
  Douglas Benfield: like this, m
  Jeffery Oliva: Dash.
  Douglas Benfield: uh I want to go to twenty five, and then to
  Stephen Bacon: And
  Douglas Benfield: ten,
  Stephen Bacon: then back
  Douglas Benfield: uh-huh
  Stephen Bacon: to the
  Douglas Benfield: mm
  Stephen Bacon: one
  Douglas Benfield: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: I was before,
  Douglas Benfield: Also
  Stephen Bacon: so there's
  Douglas Benfield: we can be
  Kevin Hovey: Uh-huh.
  Stephen Bacon: whichever
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah
  Douglas Benfield: here
  Jeffery Oliva: you
  Stephen Bacon: it
  Jeffery Oliva: can
  Stephen Bacon: was.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Douglas Benfield: yeah, that would
  Kevin Hovey: Go
  Douglas Benfield: be
  Kevin Hovey: back
  Douglas Benfield: cool.
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: button
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: is
  Stephen Bacon: Uh
  Kevin Hovey: good.
  Stephen Bacon: uh we had that
  Kevin Hovey: I once
  Stephen Bacon: in
  Kevin Hovey: had
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah
  Stephen Bacon: in
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah, the
  Kevin Hovey: it.
  Jeffery Oliva: previous
  Stephen Bacon: other countries.
  Jeffery Oliva: button is.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah
  Douglas Benfield: yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: e even the history
  Jeffery Oliva: Uh, okay.
  Stephen Bacon: so you could like uh undo
  Kevin Hovey: History.
  Jeffery Oliva: Oh uh.
  Stephen Bacon: previous of the previous. Then you can watch
  Jeffery Oliva: Uh.
  Stephen Bacon: what your ah you could also record your
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: record your sequence of actions, that becomes more complex, but you could look at what uh the other people have used
  Jeffery Oliva: Yeah yeah,
  Stephen Bacon: there
  Jeffery Oliva: what the
  Stephen Bacon: or
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-mm.
  Jeffery Oliva: which channels
  Stephen Bacon: remote controls.
  Jeffery Oliva: the viewer
  Stephen Bacon: Yeah maybe
  Douglas Benfield: Okay.
  Stephen Bacon: it's a
  Douglas Benfield: So I think we have full
  Stephen Bacon: Okay.
  Douglas Benfield: of idea. Um we're going to meet again in thirty minutes and uh I want you to mm work on these ideas and try to make a uh the ones, make um to decide what what are the ones important and what are the one that we don't want. And um m maybe more in the technical parts what uh do we want to do. Um. So um your personal coach will send you some instruction for for this thirty minutes.
  Stephen Bacon: So what does M_E_ means? M_E_ the user requirements? Or that's uh that's for us?
  Kevin Hovey: Market Expert.
  Jeffery Oliva: Marketing
  Douglas Benfield: Mm.
  Stephen Bacon: Uh that's Stephen Bacon.
  Jeffery Oliva: yeah.
  Stephen Bacon: Oh, of course yeah, the user requirement specifications, uh-huh,
  Douglas Benfield: Mm-hmm.
  Stephen Bacon: yeah. Okay.
  Douglas Benfield: Mm
  Stephen Bacon: I'll
  Douglas Benfield: okay.
  Stephen Bacon: think of that.
  Douglas Benfield: So.
  Stephen Bacon: So?
  Douglas Benfield: I think that's all.
  Stephen Bacon: Meeting's over? Great.
  Douglas Benfield: Yeah.
  Kevin Hovey: Okay.
  Jeffery Oliva: Thank you.
  Stephen Bacon: Thank you.
  Kevin Hovey: Thank
  Douglas Benfield: See
  Kevin Hovey: you everybody.
  Douglas Benfield: you in thirty minutes.
Updated Content: Douglas Benfield opened the meeting and introduced the upcoming project to the team members. The team members then participated in an exercise in which each team member drew his favorite animal and discussed why he liked the particular animal. After the drawing exercise, Douglas Benfield discussed selling prices and production costs for the remote the team will design. Douglas Benfield also indicated that the remote will be sold internationally and that two million remotes are expected to be sold. The team then discussed their experiences using remotes in the past and what features to consider implementing in the remote they will produce. The team members discussed child proof capabilities, color options, how to adapt a remote for left-handed users, a "go back" function, the size of a remote, buttons, and LCD screens. Douglas Benfield closed the meeting and gave the team members their assignments and then one of the team members briefly went over his role on the team.