The document discusses the importance of companies using their own web mapping applications to demonstrate quality and capabilities. It notes that by using their own product, companies can identify issues and actively work to fix them. Additionally, when others also use the application, especially the right others to solve business problems, it will lead the application to get better and help the company survive. The presentation emphasizes how dogfooding a product helps ensure it works as intended and meets user needs.
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Dog Fooding
1. How's your dog food taste?
Presented by: Learon Dalby
Date: 10/30/2013
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14. MapThis.net
Six Reasons Why the Public Hates Your Web Mapping
Application
It is slow to load
It is ugly
You cant print from it
Your data is incomplete and outdated
It cant be figured out in five seconds
It is not mobile friendly
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15. Do any of the following use your app to solve
a business problem?
Private Sector
Governor
Legislator
Executive
County Official
Joe Schmo
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20. Eating your own dog food, also
called dogfooding, is a slang term used to
reference a scenario in which a company
(usually, a computer software company) uses
its own product to demonstrate the quality
and capabilities of the product.
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息2013, The Sanborn Map Company, Inc.
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21. You use it, it will get better
Others use it, it will get better
The RIGHT others use it, you will
survive
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22. I may or may not have
We use it
We know when its broke
We know its shortcomings
We actively fix issues
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