The main assumption is that the project spans two or more ALM domains (e.g. Requirements Management, Design Management, Source Code Management, Quality Management), or that two or more applications are used to manage the engineering work. The most common case is to branch from a global baseline, branching a new global stream. The purpose may be managing a brand new product in the product line, or managing a new version (e.g. new model year, a FixPack, etc.) for an existing product.

Preconditions:

• There is at least a global configuration created and defined already. This may be a mutable (stream) or an immutable (baseline) configuration.

Postconditions:

• A new Global Configuration has been created.

Steps

1. Search for the global configuration that you would like to branch from

2. Branch a new global configuration

3. Rename the newly branch stream, following the naming convention for Configurations: ProductComponentName_(NewVariantName).

4. Replace contribution if needed.

5. (Optional) Proceed to replace any additional contributions for other domain applications (e.g. Design, Code, Tests, etc.).

6. Save the changes.