Case Study: Macmillan Learning achieves faster innovation and reduced release risk with CloudBees Feature Management

Macmillan Learning Makes the Grade with CloudBees Feature Management

Macmillan Learning, part of the Holtzbrinck Publisher Group and maker of digital education tools like iClicker, needed a better way to deliver frequent, complex updates. With deployments tightly coupled to external releases, teams faced risky, all‑hands deployment events, long overtime coordination, and slowed innovation—despite running 100+ releases a year—because there was no easy way to toggle or roll back new features.

Macmillan adopted CloudBees Feature Management and feature flags to separate deployments from releases, enabling progressive rollouts, targeted testing, and fast rollbacks. The change sped time to value, saved developers countless hours, increased experimentation and innovation (helpful during the COVID pivot to remote learning), improved developer satisfaction, and materially reduced release risk.

Macmillan Learning

Brydin Eckert

Product Manager