Extracted Content: Tami Welch: Okay. Good morning everybody.
  Cathy Reed: Good morning.
  Tami Welch: Oh, everybody is not ready.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Uh almost. Ready.
  Tami Welch: Alright. Okay, let's go. So, we're here today to to have our first kick-off meeting about uh this new project we're going to tak to talk about in a few minutes. Um so I will be uh Sebastian Tami Welch. Um you are the
  Jeanne Cowgill: I'm uh Michael. Jeanne Cowgill.
  Tami Welch: Okay.
  Beatrice Pelletier: Hi I'm Guillermo. I'm Beatrice Pelletier.
  Cathy Reed: And I am, Cathy Reed.
  Tami Welch: Okay, very good. Thanks for being here. Um so let's have a look to the the agenda. So, we are going to go through this agenda and mainly first to uh to make to to be used to the tools uh available in this nice and smart meeting room we have here. Um then we'll go to uh the plans for project and have general discussions about it. So, the goal of this project is to uh developed a new remote control. Um it should be original, trendy, and also user friendly. As usual we will follow the the project method um that we are using in the in our company. It is in three step as you know. First the functional design. The second's a conceptual design, and then the detailed design. During each step uh of each design we wi you will work uh s separately, individually on uh your specific tasks and will m we will meet to um to discuss and take decisions about uh what you've you've you did and what uh we will do next. So first, we have to to train ourself with all the um the tools availables in the in this nice meeting room and uh particularly the the white board so uh we are going to go through the white board and take some um s some notes or do some drawings. So who want to start?
  Jeanne Cowgill: Ah well
  Tami Welch: Mister.
  Jeanne Cowgill: if no one else wants to, yeah. Okay so, want Beatrice Pelletier to draw my favourite animal. Let's see.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Well, I don't really have a favourite animal, but um uh
  Tami Welch: You have one in mind?
  Jeanne Cowgill: I think I have one in mind, so uh I'm gonna about the uh spider because you can actually draw it pretty well in the corner of a white board. The spider has a spider lives in a web and uh it has eight legs, and uh it can move all about the web in two dimensions. Unless it's a three dimensional web which y they have sometimes. There are some spiders that live in like that have like uh kind of a a big ball of a of a web. And uh the other thing is some spiders can actually uh fly like uh they have uh they let out like uh a stream of like the web building material but it's it acts like a parachute so they can actually kind of go and find new uh build a new web somewhere else. So I think they did this in uh in Charlotte's Web that movie that little uh well it's actually a book first but uh um at the end all the the spiders kinda flew away. So,
  Tami Welch: Okay.
  Jeanne Cowgill: that's
  Tami Welch: Th
  Jeanne Cowgill: my animal.
  Tami Welch: thank you. Very interesting. Guillermo you want to?
  Beatrice Pelletier: 'kay I dunno why, but when I was a child I I wanted to be a a panther not a pink panther,
  Cathy Reed: But don't
  Beatrice Pelletier: or
  Cathy Reed: you
  Beatrice Pelletier: maybe
  Cathy Reed: think
  Beatrice Pelletier: yes.
  Cathy Reed: it's very difficult to draw a panther?
  Beatrice Pelletier: Uh yeah yeah.
  Cathy Reed: So bad
  Tami Welch: It
  Cathy Reed: I don't like
  Tami Welch: would be
  Cathy Reed: it.
  Tami Welch: very funny for us. Oh.
  Beatrice Pelletier: Okay it's a friendly panther.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Maybe it's happy 'cause it just ate someone.
  Beatrice Pelletier: Yeah maybe. Um. Actually, honestly I I I dunno what's what's his it's be behaviour, I dunno if if it's the male who who hunts or it's the female uh, I I the female lions who who hunt, so but I like it because it's fast, and it's black as well, so it can he it can hide itself very easily and it's it's it looks like um powerful, strong, uh I dunno. I I watch a a film about a black panther when I was a child and I was in that age when everything was shocking Beatrice Pelletier a lot.
  Tami Welch: Okay. Thank
  Beatrice Pelletier: Okay.
  Tami Welch: you. Hemant.
  Cathy Reed: Um sure.
  Jeanne Cowgill: So you don't like pink panthers?
  Beatrice Pelletier: I like it.
  Cathy Reed: Oh yeah. Thanks. This lapel is coming out once in a while. It's not very strong. Okay. So, not the favourite animal, but I think I'll draw elephant. I'll try to draw elephant. It's a problem. Okay, thanks. Okay so, elephant goes like this, it has four feet. I don't know whether there's any dist there should be any distance or not, but I think this is the easiest. And then we have it's trunk. And yep something like this. An eye, cute. Yeah, so
  Tami Welch: Poor elephant.
  Cathy Reed: and sometimes they have a hump. It seems that uh elephants are pretty friendly and they they have one very important way a different way of walking. So when they walk, wherever they are going to put their first feet, the second feet will always be. When they'll come to that position the second, the third feet will be there. That's the way they walk. And that's very peculiar about them. None of the other animals walk like this. And they are very useful to human beings. At least few few hundred years ago when there was no means of transportations or something, or when they had to carry huge um loads from one place to another, elephants were very useful. And they are found in um usually the warm countries. And um they are the biggest terrestrial animal. That's what I know about them. So, that's what I wanted to tell about
  Jeanne Cowgill: So
  Cathy Reed: elephants.
  Jeanne Cowgill: is this uh an Indian or an African elephant, 'cause you haven't drawn
  Cathy Reed: There
  Jeanne Cowgill: the
  Cathy Reed: are
  Jeanne Cowgill: ears?
  Cathy Reed: two kind of uh yeah, they are very different, Indian and African elephants. So Indian elephant is having one bump, I think, and the African have two. And then there's a difference in the trunk of the animals, these elephants who are Indian and So at some for some elephants it's the trunk is having one Do we have some message there?
  Tami Welch: Yes. We have to I
  Cathy Reed: Wind
  Tami Welch: have
  Cathy Reed: up?
  Tami Welch: to catch you, sorry.
  Cathy Reed: Okay,
  Tami Welch: We have to to
  Cathy Reed: some
  Tami Welch: go through
  Cathy Reed: other time.
  Tami Welch: the meeting.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Okay.
  Cathy Reed: Thank you.
  Tami Welch: Thank you.
  Jeanne Cowgill: We can discuss that off-line.
  Tami Welch: Yeah we'll discuss a f a fly or do we'll do another meeting abo on
  Cathy Reed: Thanks.
  Tami Welch: elephants. So so another important part of the project is about money, uh and about so about finances. So we should target selling price of twenty-five Euro for this remote control and uh we have um which which would generate a profit of of um fifty million Euros, okay. And we should target the inter an international market.
  Jeanne Cowgill: So could I just ask one question, um is this a stand-alone unit that we're gonna be selling? So it's gonna be you already have a T_V_ but you're buying an extra remote control for it or something?
  Tami Welch: O this is the next topic we have to discuss exactly,
  Jeanne Cowgill: Okay, alright.
  Tami Welch: so let's go to it. So um we should decide which kind of remote control we want to uh we want to uh we want to go. Should be should should it be um specific remote control to some specific device? Should it be a universal one? And uh etcetera. So um so I'm waiting for your for your inputs very quickly because we have only three three minutes to go.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Okay well, so, it seems the the first thing that they've kinda specified is the price like based on how much profit we wanna make, which seems to a kind of a little strange if we don't know what the the product is yet, but I guess if that's if that's the requirement that we need to to design the the product to actually fit that that price bracket so, I guess we're gonna need to find out what's actually you know, what people ar are willing to pay for um what kind of product they're expecting for twenty-five Euro
  Tami Welch: Okay.
  Jeanne Cowgill: because it seems quite a lot for a remote control, so
  Tami Welch: Okay
  Jeanne Cowgill: it's
  Tami Welch: I think this is more a job to our
  Cathy Reed: Marketing
  Tami Welch: market
  Cathy Reed: person.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Yeah.
  Tami Welch: person yeah.
  Cathy Reed: Mm-hmm.
  Tami Welch: So it should be the topic of maybe of the next meeting just to to have an overview of this and uh in which direction we should go. So we need to close the meeting. Uh we'll have a new meeting soon and uh so the work every every of you ha have t d to do. So um you have to work on the on the working design, you have to uh work on the technical functions, and uh you have to work on us user requirements specs, alright?
  Beatrice Pelletier: Yeah.
  Tami Welch: Um you will receive some information by emails, i as usual. Thanks for coming today.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Okay.
  Cathy Reed: Thanks.
  Tami Welch: Thanks.
  Jeanne Cowgill: Alright.
Updated Content: Tami Welch Sebastian opens the meeting. The rest introduce themselves, including Michael the interface designer, Guillermo Beatrice Pelletier, and Hemant Cathy Reed. Tami Welch states the goal of the project, which is to develop a new remote control. It should be original, trendy, and user-friendly. He also mentions the three-step project- functional design, conceptual design, and detailed design. Then they take turns drawing their favorite animal on the white board. After that they briefly discuss finances. The remote control's target selling price of twenty-five Euro dollars and will be for the international market. They need to generate a profit of fifty million Euros. The question of whether the remote control should be for a specific device was brought up but not answered. Tami Welch closes the meeting, telling each group member what he is responsible for and reminding them that they will receive more information by email.