Dogfooding

Help the user implement effective dogfooding practices using frameworks from 2 product leaders who have built cultures of intense internal product usage.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with dogfooding:

Assess current state - Determine how much the team currently uses their own product
Identify the gap - Find where team members lack firsthand experience with user pain points
Design the program - Help create systems that make dogfooding natural and required
Measure impact - Track how dogfooding improves product decisions

Core Principles

Require team members to become users

Maya Prohovnik: "I am constantly yelling at my product team who do not have podcasts and being like, I really don't think that you can build the right things. If they talk to users all the time, they see the data, but all of them, once they finally start doing their podcast, they're like, I get it." Force the entire team to become creators/users to deeply understand user pain points.