Ho ho ho, who's got the last laugh now?

[mudskipper]

it's an oblate spheroid!

the Earth is a geoid.

You might be remembering wrong, the geoid is the surface of equal gravitational potential and is far closer in shape to an ellipsoid than it is to the actual shape of the earth.

No wonder Columbus got confused.

[shaunbhoy]

No wonder Columbus got confused.

America was actually discovered long before Columbus. They just managed to hush it up till then.

[suityou01]

Ah, so it's not agile. Just a slap-dash make-it-up-for-now approach.

That was helpful.

Actually that sounds a lot like agile to me.

From wikipedia

Software projects in which new requirements are specified in bug reports

[doodab]

The hypothetical surface of the Earth that coincides everywhere with mean sea level and is perpendicular, at every point, to the direction of gravity. The geoid is used as a reference surface for astronomical measurements and for the accurate measurement of elevations on the Earth's surface.

The shape of an object's gravitational equipotential surface.

The earth's geoid is usually defined in terms of mean sea level because the seas would in theory, if everything stopped moving, settle down, and their height at any point would depend on the gravitational potential. The strength of the force of gravity is the same at every point on the resulting surface, if it wasn't the water would "run downhill" until the surface was "flat". The surface of the geoid is slightly lumpy due to variations in density of the crust and mantle and so on, but it varies by only a few hundred meters from a best fit ellipsoid, and it doesn't describe the actual shape of the earth. If it did, elevation everywhere would be 0, by definition.

[suityou01]

The earth's geoid is usually defined in terms of mean sea level because the seas would in theory, if everything stopped moving, settle down, and their height at any point would depend on the gravitational potential. The strength of the force of gravity is the same at every point on the resulting surface, if it wasn't the water would "run downhill" until the surface was "flat". The surface of the geoid is lumpy due to variations in density of the crust and mantle and so on, but it varies by only a few hundred meters from a best fit ellipsoid, and it doesn't describe the actual shape of the earth. If it did, elevation everywhere would be 0, by definition.

You are hereby evicted from my thread for being a boring sod

[MarillionFan]

Suityou. You're very clever. Everyone please join me in telling Suity how special he is.

[Freamon]

Why would I have a go?

Agile will work in this instance as the spec has gaps. So if we build in slices and have review sessions we can close up those gaps as we go. To re-work the spec would take aaaaaaaaaaages, and the stakeholders have grown battle weary. At least regular agile iterations would reinvigorate the stakeholders and quickly build confidence.

Well done Suity. Good luck with the agile.

[MarillionFan]

Suityou. You're very clever. Everyone please join me in telling Suity how special he is.

In fact

[suityou01]

Feature driven development IS A PART OF AGILE

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[Freamon]

Feature driven development IS A PART OF AGILE

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Whoosh.