Pigs and chickens

 

- "Pigs and chickens" is an analogy used in the Scrum software development model to define the type of role an attendee can play at a daily scrum meeting. In rugby, scrum means "restart the game." For programmers, a daily scrum is a short meeting at the beginning of the day where team members take stock of where they are on a project and determine what needs to be done next. If the scrum attendee is a pig, it means he is directly accountable for completion of the task at hand. If the attendee is a chicken, he may be somewhat involved in the task at hand but is not the person whose "bacon is on the line" if the task doesn't get completed on time. At daily scrums, pigs may talk. Chickens must remain silent. The roles, which are usually self-assigned, are intended to prevent daily scrums from going on too long and drifting off topic. In addition to enforcing the only-pigs-can-talk rule, meeting facilitators (called the ScrumMasters) will often hold scrums standing up. The choice of labels to define the two roles is up to the team. The roles have also been described as boats and barnacles, dogs and fleas and movie stars and agents. The original inspiration for the choice of pig and chicken comes from this story:   A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The Chicken looks at the pig and says "Hey, why don't we open a restaurant?" The pig looks back at the chicken and says "Good idea, what do you want to call it?" The chicken thinks about it 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."   This short video gives an introduction to the concept of Scrum, its roles and its terminology.   “Pigs and chickens”是Scrum软件开发模式中的一个比喻，用来比喻参会者在每天的Scrum会议中所起的作用。 　　在橄榄球中，scrum的意思是“重新开始游戏”。对于程序员来说，每日Scrum是指每天开始工作时的一个简短的会议，其中小组成员估量他们项目进行的情况，并确定下一步需要做什么。 　　如果参会者是“猪（pig）”，这意味着他直接负责完成手头的任务。如果参会者是“鸡（chicken）”，他可能会参与手头的任务，但如果任务没有按时完成，他不是那个需要承担责任的人。在日常scrum中，猪会发表言论讨论。鸡必须保持沉默。 　　这些角色通常是自我分配，它是为了防止每日scrum会议时间太长，谈话脱离话题。除了强制执行只有“猪”可以通话的规则外，会议主持人（称为ScrumMaster）要使scrum会议继续下去。 　　选择什么标签来定义这两个角色是由小组决定的。这两个角色也可以是船和藤壶，狗和跳蚤或者电影明星和经纪人。选择猪和鸡这两个标签的灵感最初来自这个故事： 　　一只猪和一只鸡走在路上。鸡看着猪，说：“嘿，我们何不开一家餐馆？” 猪回过头来看着鸡，说：“好主意，你要给它取个什么名字了？”鸡想了想，说：“我们叫它‘火腿和鸡蛋’吧。” “我认为不好，”猪说，“我得出命（猪肉做火腿），你只出蛋（鸡下蛋）。”

 

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