Dogfooding
Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30
CORE DEFINITION
"Eating your own dog food". The company must internally force the use of its own developed products. If employees don't even like to use it, don't expect customers to buy it.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
The most brutal quality inspection. This is the best means to break the "production-research self-congratulation". When you are forced to use that difficult bug system every day, you will want to fix it more than any customer.
Anchor fast decisions
"Eating your own dog food": the enterprise uses its own products to truly expose and improve problems. The mechanism is that internal real use forces quality.
MINIMUM ACTION
In progress 0/3Practice this model in one real situation:
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- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_foodverified
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