"Dogfooding"
"Dogfooding" means having a company's own employees use its product internally before releasing it to customers.
Say this instead: using our own product
How "Dogfooding" shows up at work
A beloved tech concept that gets trotted out to suggest a team has genuine conviction in what they are building. Less often mentioned: internal users complain differently than paying ones do.
Buzzword
We've been dogfooding the new dashboard with the sales team for two weeks.
Plain English
We've been using our own product with the sales team for two weeks.
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