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How's your dog food taste?Presented by: Learon DalbyDate: 10/30/2013

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Meet Will & Helen

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Will built this house… with his own two hands, and almost no help.

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Detail to functionality

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Will & Helen

You use your web mapping application?

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BE HONEST

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Who else uses it?

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Does it save time, $, or solve a problem?

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But I get a whole bunch of hits… I serve a whole bunch of tiles…

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But I get a whole bunch of hits… I serve a whole bunch of tiles…

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The Tyranny of “Requirements” FAST • INTUITIVE • INFORMATIVE • FAST

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Six Reasons Why the Public Hates Your Web Mapping Application

It is slow to load

It is ugly

You can’t print from it

Your data is incomplete and outdated

It can’t be figured out in five seconds

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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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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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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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I may or may not have…

We use it… We know when it’s broke We know its shortcomings We actively fix issues

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Credits

Learon DalbySanborn

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