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In the mid-90’s, I ran a series of virtual team training programs for the Microsoft IT function in Europe. As someone who used to work for an FMCG company who made pet food, \u00a0I used to tell the story about how, at the end of out factory tour, we would taste our own product to ensure quality. (Its quite safe and reasonably tasty).<\/p>\n
I usually added the gag that you could tell the testers because they had beautiful shiny hair, but slightly damp noses!<\/p>\n
A couple of years later when I came back to Microsoft, people were using the term ‘dogfooding’<\/em> to mean consuming your own product first before sharing it with customers. I asked them where it came from, but no one could remember and I always wondered if it was me.<\/p>\n I saw the term used again recently in an article and it reminded me of the story.<\/p>\n So – \u00a0to satisfy my curiosity – does anyone else know how the term came into the technology industry, and can they claim to have spotted it before about 1995.<\/p>\n If it was\u00a0 me, I heartily apologize for introducing the phrase. It was meant innocently!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the mid-90’s, I ran a series of virtual team training programs for the Microsoft IT function in Europe. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n