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The Past, Present and Future of Progressive Delivery

While progressive delivery is universally accepted as important for web and mobile software development, how best to implement it remains a challenge for many organizations. Everyone understands that progressive delivery is a good thing, and now it’s like, ‘okay, great, but how do we really do it and let’s take this concept and let’s really build it out into our big enterprise organizations,’” said Rendall.

Rendall defines progressive delivery as the use of feature flags to manage “deployment and release.”

CloudBees supports progressive delivery with its CloudBees Feature Flags tool to communicate how feature development is progressing to other developers, other DevOps stakeholders, and even to end users.

However, in the long term, Rendall believes progressive delivery — and the use of feature flags — holds great promise.