The team chose to kick off an automated build every night at midnight. Every night, all the code labeled "golden" was built, and all the unit tests and regression tests were run against it. The results were emailed to each team member.

As soon as someone checked in code, he labeled it "raw." Every developer built a raw build locally, to make sure he hadn't broken anything. Once the code had been through code review, it was labeled "cooked." Once a developer had "cooked" all his code, he promoted it to "golden."