The article outlines seven essential secrets management techniques that modern development teams can implement to enhance security, streamline processes, and improve efficiency. These practices include centralizing secrets storage with dashboards and access controls, automating the synchronization of secrets across various environments, and implementing drift detection and early alert systems to prevent configuration issues. Additionally, the use of secrets referencing helps reduce duplication, while comparison tools identify inconsistencies, and lookup-by-value tools manage potential exposures. Personal and branch configurations offer developers the flexibility to test changes locally without impacting global settings, thus improving testing efficiency and security. Together, these techniques not only bolster security but also facilitate seamless, collaborative workflows in software development environments.