This screenshot shows a flow chart on how the changes propagate from Production to Development during the initial phase.

This screenshot shows a flow chart which compares the Production Mapping to Development. On the left are the following, from top to bottom: rounded rectangle labeled "Error in Production Mapping", rectangle labeled "Compare Production and Development versions of Mapping", a diamond labeled "Do the two version differ?", and a diamond labeled "Initial Phase or Mature Phase?". There are arrows that connect these components in the same order in which they are displayed.

On the right are the following: "Backup Production mapping (metadata snapshot)", a rectangle labeled "Change Production mapping", a rectangle labeled "Deploy mapping to Runtime", a rectangle labeled "Metadata Export Production mapping", an inverted triangle labeled "Import and merge mapping to Development". There are arrows that connect these components in the same order in which they are displayed. Below the inverted triangle labeled "Import and merge mapping to Development" are two rectangles, from left to right, labeled "Deploy mapping to Runtime" and "Propagate changes to QA". There are arrows from the inverted triangle to both these rectangles. Also, an arrow connects "Propagate change to QA" to "Deploy mapping to runtime".

There is an arrow, labeled Initial Phase, from the diamond labeled "Initial Phase or Mature Phase?" on the left to "Backup Production mapping (metadata snapshot)".