Comments on: When the Dogs Make Their Own Food, or, Bottom-up Agile Innovation http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/27/when-the-dogs-make-their-own-food-or-bottom-up-agile-innovation/ Est. 2000 Wed, 30 May 2012 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: People Over Process » Blog Archive » Re: Just Say No… agile is simple, or, Escape from Your Ghettos, Suits and Coders! http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/27/when-the-dogs-make-their-own-food-or-bottom-up-agile-innovation/#comment-2280 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:02:11 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2593#comment-2280 [...] Dog-fooding is a hedge, but most dogs won’t eat the Gravy Train that is enterprise software. And while that might be an indicator of something being perniciously enterprisey, despite how tough it is to make, who don’t like gravy? [...]

]]> By: Running as Root » Blog Archive » The Year of the VM http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/27/when-the-dogs-make-their-own-food-or-bottom-up-agile-innovation/#comment-2279 Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:22:07 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2593#comment-2279 [...] You can also keep copies of Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, Windows 2003 Server, and different distros of Linux around for testing without dedicating an entire machine to each OS / product configuration combination. Using a VM to dedicate a machine to a product install also means it’s easier for people to eat their own dog food as Cote’ is fond of saying. The IT department of my new company also uses VMs to run the Subversion server, the CruiseControl server, a maven proxy, and any number of other services. The VM has its own IP address so you can pick up and move the entire “machine” any time you want to re-arrange things. [...]

]]> By: Cote' http://drunkandretired.com/2006/01/27/when-the-dogs-make-their-own-food-or-bottom-up-agile-innovation/#comment-2278 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:12:27 +0000 http://www.drunkandretired.com/?p=2593#comment-2278 JP raised a good point that it’s not always possible for the developers to eat their own dog food. Will developers really use SAP? A systems management app? This is true.

At the very least, you can hope that the company eats it’s own dog food. At the best, you can hope that the developers will make software that fits market demand, but still is fun enough that they’d want to use it. Of course, that second one is a dangerous line to walk down: navigating it poorly could result in software that doesn’t sell.

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