Ice-creaming

Ice-creaming
A more appealing version of the term “dogfooding” – whereby software developers test their products internally before release.

TechFlash’s Todd Bishop recently revealed:

For many years, Microsoft has used the phrase “eating our own dog food” – shorthanded as “dogfooding” – to describe the practice of rolling out new software to its employees first, theoretically letting them experience and report problems to ultimately improve the public release. Tony Scott, the executive in charge of Microsoft’s internal technology systems, had no problem with the concept of dogfoodingwhen the Walt Disney Co. veteran joined Microsoft last year as its CIO.
The name, however, he could do without.
“I decided very quickly that dogfooding just didn’t sound very appealing. We started to change the name of it and calling it ‘ice-creaming’ now,” Scott told the Society for Information Management at its national SIMposium convention in Seattle this afternoon.
The titfer is tipped to the co-vocabularist Rachel Isaacs who spotted this term on Gizmodo.


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