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[–] [email protected] 181 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Chicken and the Pig

The fable of the Chicken and the Pig is used to illustrate the differing levels of commitment from project stakeholders involved in a project. The basic fable runs:

A Pig and a Chicken are walking down the road.
The Chicken says: "Hey Pig, I was thinking we should open a restaurant!"
Pig replies: "Hm, maybe, what would we call it?"
The Chicken responds: "How about 'ham-n-eggs'?"
The Pig thinks for a moment and says: "No thanks. I'd be committed, but you'd only be involved."

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Damn, that's a lot fucking darker than I'd thought it'd get on reading the title of the fable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

It was actually in my management textbook XD

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it'd be rarer to find a fable that wasn't dark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tortoise and the hare isn't particularly dark.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You obviously didn't read the version where the hare gets eaten.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Tortoise kills hare in horrifying video. More at 6.

Edit: it was a seabird

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I heard of it from a Reddit comment about an easter egg location in Diablo 3 called "The Fowl Lair." It's filled with chickens and a single Greasy Pig.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I know it's not the point, but I love the completely arbitrary bit where they're walking down a road together, and has absolutely no bearing on anything the happens.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

It has one bearing: it puts them in the same location together

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Substitute “walking down a road” with: “having dinner at a conference”, “chatting over lattes at the local coffee shop”, or “at a neighborhood cookout” as makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So this pig is fucking a chicken, and the chicken says...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

…stop cluckin around back here! We’ve got customers to serve.