How to Run a Dogfooding Program Before You Open a Public Beta
A practical guide to running a dogfooding program before public beta — staffing, exit criteria, feature flags, and the failure modes it actually catches.
A practical guide to running a dogfooding program before public beta — staffing, exit criteria, feature flags, and the failure modes it actually catches.
Most beta test programs produce a spreadsheet of bug reports and almost nothing else. That’s not a failure of the testers — it’s a failure of design. If the only question your beta test program asks is “did anything break,” you’ll get an answer to that question and nothing about whether the thing you built…