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"Pig roles are considered core team members. Performers. People who 'do'
work.... A Chicken is someone who has something to gain by the Pigs
performing, but in the end, really do not contribute day to day to
'getting things done.'"
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:
>
> You really have to be considered a "pig" and not a "chicken" in the
> Scrum meeting. (
> http://www.implementingscrum.com/2006/09/11/the-classic-story-of-the-pig
-and-chicken/
> )
> TWs tend to be second class citizens in a lot of dev oraganizations,
> this is your chance to avoid that. Your company ships two things to
> customers, product and doc. You have a customer facing deliverable.
> Stress that. Get managment to back you.
>
>
>
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