Your team should create baselines of the product periodically. Early in the development cycle, one baseline every month usually suffices. Late in the cycle, your team might need to create baselines weekly or every few days.
To create a baseline consisting of a configuration map version that contains several applications, your team might do the following:
First, class developers create versions of their classes.
Next, class owners release the class versions into containing applications
and subapplications.
Next, application managers:
Finally, the configuration map manager: