Ben Brockert on Nostr: "Schedule chicken" is a common aerospace industry term, where you have a schedule and ...

"Schedule chicken" is a common aerospace industry term, where you have a schedule and two or more teams working toward it. Every team knows they aren't going to make the schedule, but none will say anything until eventually one is forced and can be blamed for the delay.

Common for the hardware and software team on a rocket to be playing schedule chicken. Or a big payload and a new launch vehicle.

It's named after the "game" of two people driving straight at each other until one chickens out.