Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Barnyard Agility
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
A pig and a chicken are sitting around a barn when the chicken suddenly says, “Hey Pig! Let’s open a restaurant!”
“Great idea Chicken!” says the pig, “What should we call it?”
The chicken thinks a minute and says, “Why don’t we call it ‘Ham and Eggs’?”
“I don’t think so,” says the pig, “I’d be committed, but you’d only be involved.”
--adapted from an Agile Project Management seminar
If you are familiar with the Scrum agile software development process, you’ve heard this joke before. As part of an agile training session, attendees are shown that while there are many roles that are part of the process, they essentially break down into two basic types: pigs and chickens. While some may consider the terminology demeaning or inappropriate, the function of it is to identify the basic character traits of those individuals that share in the development effort so as to determine their appropriate level of participation.
Oink
Being a pig is actually a good thing. Forget about your concepts regarding a trough, rolling around in the mud or even thinking about George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The most numerous of pigs are the team members on a project. To draw a bit from the story above, their final delivery…
Please log in or sign up below to read the rest of the article.
ADVERTISEMENTS
|
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth |