30 Feature Flagging Best Practices Mega Guide

Essential tips, tricks, definitions, use cases, and more to improve your feature management practice.

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30 Feature Flagging Best Practices Mega Guide

Introduction

Feature flags, sometimes called feature toggles, are standard practice for many software development teams. As the top feature management platform, we’re often asked for advice on feature flag best practices.

And what are those best practices? Well, it depends on

  • Whether the flag is a short-term or permanent flag.
  • The purpose of the flag.
  • Your specific business needs.

What works for one company may not work for others. In this ebook, you’ll read about the nuances of feature flagging best practices, so you can avoid technical debt and other common troubles and use feature flags to your benefit. Below, you’ll learn about best practices for:

  • Short-term and permanent flags
  • Release management
  • Operational feature flags
  • Experimentation

Whether you’re just getting started or are a seasoned veteran, we’ll demonstrate how your teams can get the most out of feature flags.