Project Manager: Okay . Um don't know how lo much longer we've got . At least five minutes I think . Um quickly we'll pop onto project evaluation . Um . So , we've got these uh four criteria here for uh satisfaction . Does anybody want to um um do you have any opinions on any of them ? For example um we'll work backwards I suppose . The ability to work on this project using the technology we've been presented with . Um people made good use of the uh pen and paper ?
User Interface: Yeah ,
Project Manager: I would say  User Interface: got notes and doodles .
Marketing: Wrote nearly a page ,
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: but not .
Project Manager: I'm not quite sure what the advantage for us using a digital pen might be .
User Interface: Well I think this is a I think the digital pen's mostly for the benefit of the uh
Marketing: I think tracking .
User Interface: of the researchers studying this . It's all p goes into their corpus .
Project Manager: It must User Interface: Though it would have been nice to be able to transfer the um transfer our n our paper notes onto the uh computer ourselves .
Marketing: Yeah , that woulda been pretty good .
Project Manager: It does seem like the paper's still a heavy consideration for taking notes . So maybe this is literally just a way around it . Um I dunno . How are people satisfied with the teamwork we've managed to display today ?
User Interface: .
Marketing: I'd Industrial Designer: Good .
Marketing: yeah I liked it , yeah .
Project Manager: Leadership . As much as can be leadered in this uh thing .
Industrial Designer: Very good .
Marketing: I li yeah , top marks .
Project Manager: Um last one we've got is room for creativity .
Marketing: Well User Interface: Unti uh uh until uh until accounts came along ,
Project Manager: Now , I think we got User Interface: squish .
Industrial Designer: We're burs bursting with creativity .
Marketing: yeah . Project Manager: Yeah
Marketing: We we're not lacking in ideas , you know it's that was not the problem .
Project Manager: I think of in the end , ideas that can be used sadly . Not so much that we weren't full of ideas , but of ones that are gonna allow us to actually build the thing . It's a bit of a pity .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Um I would have to agree on that . I think we needed a larger budget .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: If you're going to aim your a um product maybe at the technological kind of sector , then you can afford to maybe jack the price up slightly from what it is .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Because they will pay outrageous cash to User Interface: Mm . I mean I th I mean I think to r retaining the s the more sort of bio-morphic form in the articulation would gain more in s uh would gain more profit in sales than it would lose in uh
Project Manager: first on the market .
User Interface: in added expense .
Project Manager: Mm .
Industrial Designer: And the price was like it was twice the w assembly cost . And would it have to be twice that ? It could be like coulda had the assembly like maybe fifteen Euro .
Project Manager: It could even Industrial Designer: We'll still settle for twenty five .
Project Manager: That's true , yeah .
Industrial Designer: Maybe . Project Manager: Um I suppose these are all that will have to be taken up with a at a different group at I guess . As to a the costs involved . But I mean we've got a a prototype .
User Interface: Such as it is .
Project Manager: So I dunno , I I think it's gone okay today , considering the information that we've had at our disposal , and um such .
Marketing: Maybe the counts wou woulda been better if we had a list or more Yeah , to begin with .
Industrial Designer: In the beginning , yeah .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Probably would have mean we could have come up with a lot more solid design in the end ,
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: I would have to agree . It is very much a pity to um get so far into the stage and then find out that maybe some of your ideas are just a bit too expensive . Always hard to tell until you know the costs . Um . Okay . Are the costs within budget ? Well ,
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: they are now that we have our slightly less than capable product .
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: We've evaluated it , and we can say that we came out with a value of three .
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: Actually I want th one thing I would say Project Manager: User Interface: I mean something that could perhaps be part of the product mm the um m product testing market research process would be to uh produce mock-ups of both versions and see just how much of a difference the over going over-budget um m would make to sales .
Project Manager: It's yeah ?
Marketing: And like response from consumers .
User Interface: And we could even you know , market two versions .
Project Manager: Marketing: User Interface: Wee cheapie version with the nice bio-morphic rubber . Project Manager: And then the final one where you get to call it Hal .
User Interface: Yes .
Project Manager: But we'll go into that later .
Marketing: Sure .
Project Manager: Right um
Marketing: Project Manager: is there anything else that anybody would like to to add , um anything they think that's not been covered , before I quickly write up a final report . Um I dunno , I mean we've got a product . We maybe aren't as happy with it as we'd like to be , but we've got something we think we can maybe stick onto the the market and sell . And of course something we have been avoiding talking about 'cause of we've no information is selling them directly to the manufacturers . There is a huge market .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: I mean we've briefly touched on it but we've no more knowledge then there's little we can say on that .
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: Mm .
Project Manager: Yeah . So um unless anybody's got anything they'd like to add , we can maybe round this up slightly earlier than we'd need to and then we can finish up the writing and such .
User Interface: And I can get my bus . Okay .
Project Manager: Yeah ?
Marketing: Yeah . Okay , let's Project Manager: Uh thank you for your participation .
Marketing: Thank you .
User Interface: Thank you .
Marketing: I was actually kind of upset you know at the budget , and that we had to cut a lot of stuff . It's like man , we we can't have the locator thing . And s yeah that's just bad . Do you think maybe the prices were were made ?
Project Manager: That a question we can ask .