[hinkley]

Long lived features flags is a development process bug, I'm not sure we can solve it with the feature toggle system.

I'm at the point of deciding that Scrum is fundamentally incompatible with feature flags. We demo the code long before the flag has been removed, which leads to perverse incentives. If you want flags to go away in a timely manner you need WIP limits, and columns for those elements of the lifecycle. In short: Kanban doesn't (have to) have this problem.

And even the fixes I can imagine like the above, I'm not entirely sure you can stop your bad actor, because it's going to be months before anyone notices that the flags have long overstayed their welcome.

I'm partial to flags being under version control, where we have an audit trail. However time and again what we really need is a summary of how long each flag has existed, so they can be gotten rid of. The Kanban solution I mention above is only a 90% solution - it's easy to forget you added a flag (or added 3 but deleted 2)