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Dogfooding is difficult to achieve if you work in a niche industry which has no immediate relevance to your development team. Smart developers who care about w
by bshimmin 10y ago
Dogfooding is difficult to achieve if you work in a niche industry which has no immediate relevance to your development team. Smart developers who care about what happens beyond the back of their monitor will, of course, quickly learn a lot about the sector, but they're never going to know or care as much as a real user of the product, and they're never really going to have the same interest as they would if they were building a text editor.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoDogfooding does not require interest. Yes something niche that a developer on their own will never use is difficult (I think we had this as some of the previous companies I have worked at). Still, you should get the development team to use and demo the system on a semi regular basis. Make creating project ideas or something that they can use your product to make and play with. Tell them to take off every X hours a week or two weeks or something to ensure they are constantly using the product. It's harder but in my experience it's still necessary. At least I've never seen a good product come from a team that didn't also use the product. That I know of, anyway.