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.

[–] Hexarei 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...

[–] RagnarokOnline 4 points 6 months ago

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