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Stop calling people Chickens and Pigs

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Written by Rachel Davies   
Tuesday, 21 July 2009 04:59
If you attend a course on Scrum you're likely to hear the following joke: As a ScrumMaster, you introduce the metaphor of Chickens and Pigs to help your team understand that Scrum meetings are for them because they are the ones who commit to the Sprint plans they make. Whereas a chicken, as Michael Vizdos explains, is someone who has something to gain by the pigs performing and does do not contribute to getting things done. Of course, all the Scrum roles including Scrum Team, ScrumMaster and Product Owner are considered to be "pigs" who take responsibility for making their...


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