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I also use feature flags when I'm 100% sure stakeholders or PMs will somehow find fault a certain feature after it's deployed, even though they're the ones who specified it, approved it and tested it in a staging environment.

Not exactly the thing that we should be using Feature Flags for, but it saved my ass several times.

On the other hand: this removes some of the accountability that non-technical folks have over software. This can be detrimental in the long term.




I have also found that for UIs the best thing to do is have a staged rollout approach.

Internals / Friendly users / Less friendly users / VIPs. The blast radius & intensity of explosion is smaller on the earlier groups.

The groups themselves need not be fixed. If you have a stakeholder/group that demanded the new features, they can be in an early wave. Inevitably they may be the ones to find defects in it, so the sooner the better.




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