The Off Topic Topic

[Savonarola]

So GE Alstom has contracted with the local university to teach us the basics of System Engineering (the discipline behind running a large projects.)

Welcome to the club.

You'll appreciate this; we're switching from DOORS to something called DFQ for our requirement management software.  Alstom offered an all day training on the new software for the project managers and (for the first time) a half day training for the engineers.  There were only a handful of us who took the second course.  We had to do the same exercises as the PMs.  The first was the V diagram (what gets done when in the tool.)

Instructor:  You guys did this in half the time and much quieter than the PMs.

The second was a scheduling exercise based on a flowchart.

Instructor:  I've never seen anyone get 100% on this test before. 

I don't think any of us are cut out to be project managers, (at least I wouldn't put us in front of the customer if I could avoid it), but I thought that explains why our projects go the way they usually do.

[The Brain]

DFQ?

[Martinus]

[celedhring]

Welcome to December 2015, Marty.

[Martinus]

Welcome to December 2015, Marty.

Damn.

[celedhring]

Kinda cool. Wonder if the ECB will accept Roman sesterces for our debt repayments 

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/29/europe/spain-roman-coins-found/index.html

Enormous 1,300 lb haul of ancient Roman coins unearthed in Spain
By Tiffany Ap, CNN
Updated 1624 GMT (2324 HKT) April 29, 2016

19 amphoras full of coins unearthed
They date from the end of the 3rd century AD to early 4th century AD
Workers digging ditches came across the treasure trove

(CNN)More than 1,300 pounds (590kg) of bronze Roman coins dating to the 3rd century A.D. have been unearthed by construction workers digging a trench in Spain.

The ancient coins were found in 19 amphoras, a type of Roman jug, in Tomares, a town in Seville province.
Lola Vallejo, Tomares Urban Councillor, told CNN-affiliate Atlas that a crew had been digging a ditch to install electricity to a park when they came across the incredible find.
"The machines hit against something that wasn't normal for this soil," Vallejo said. "The workers immediately stopped, and soon discovered that there were many coins there, inside broken amphoras."

Incredible find
"What is incredible is a discovery of this size -- there are 19 amphoras, all complete, and I can assure you that they can't be moved by one person alone, because they weigh so much due to the coins inside," said Ana Navarro, head of the Archaeology Museum in Seville.
"Ten of (the amphoras) were broken while they were digging up the trench, and the others, as you can see, we have here, whole and full of this set of coins," she continued.

The initial hypothesis is that the coins were to be used to pay taxes to the Roman empire, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.

[Valmy]

So that is where Otho hid all the money he stole from his creditors.

[CountDeMoney]

So that is where Otho hid all the money he stole from his creditors.

Nah, that's where Hortlund stashed his outstanding child support.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

You'll appreciate this; we're switching from DOORS to something called DFQ for our requirement management software.  Alstom offered an all day training on the new software for the project managers and (for the first time) a half day training for the engineers.  There were only a handful of us who took the second course.  We had to do the same exercises as the PMs.  The first was the V diagram (what gets done when in the tool.)

Instructor:  You guys did this in half the time and much quieter than the PMs.

The second was a scheduling exercise based on a flowchart.

Instructor:  I've never seen anyone get 100% on this test before. 

I don't think any of us are cut out to be project managers, (at least I wouldn't put us in front of the customer if I could avoid it), but I thought that explains why our projects go the way they usually do.

Heh.

So y'all have non-technical PMs working in your requirements management system? 

[derspiess]

Non-technical PMs are the salt of the earth

[Martinus]

Gotta love Clickhole

[garbon]

I don't see why that would be a reason to love it.

[Martinus]

I don't see why that would be a reason to love it.

Yeah but then you are depressed bitch, so there's probably nothing you like.

[garbon]

I don't see why that would be a reason to love it.

Yeah but then you are depressed bitch, so there's probably nothing you like.

Yeah strangely enough I don't find funerals humorous without an attempt to add some humor.

[Eddie Teach]

Pretty rich to call the destruction of the Death Star a terrorist attack considering it had just destroyed an entire planet.