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[-] DABDA@lemm.ee 170 points 4 months ago

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."

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 52 points 4 months ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

It was actually in my management textbook XD

[-] DABDA@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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.

[-] chr@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago

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

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Tortoise and the hare isn't particularly dark.

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

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

[-] darelik@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Tortoise kills hare in horrifying video. More at 6.

Edit: it was a seabird

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 25 points 4 months ago

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

[-] makuus@pawb.social 10 points 4 months ago

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.