Pig | Glossary

 

Definition

Derived from the popular business fable of ‘The chicken and the pig’. The ‘pigs’ are responsible/ committed to a project and have to inform to the ‘chickens’. Hence Pigs play a more important, crucial role. For a Scrum project the Development Team, Product Owners & Scrum Masters are considered as ‘pigs’.

 

Further Reading

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Toyota Kata | Book Series

Overview:

This book gives best answers to the questions:

  • How can we make improvement and adaptation part of everyday work throughout the organization?
  • How can we develop and utilize the capability of everyone in the organization to repeatedly work towards achieving new levels of performance?
  • How can we give an organization the power to handle dynamic, unpredictable situations and keep satisfying customers?

The author had presented a thorough research into Toyota’s employee management routines for the first time, which is called as ‘Kata’. The book is basically about the Toyota company’s success with continuous improvement and adaptation.

Author:

Mike Rother

Published In:

2009