Create or release baselines for internal use and for delivery to the customer.

A baseline is a set of specifications or work products that has been formally reviewed and agreed on, that thereafter serves as the basis for further development or delivery, and that can be changed only through change control procedures. A baseline represents the assignment of an identifier to a configuration item or a collection of configuration items and associated entities. As a product evolves, several baselines may be used to control its development and testing.

The acquirer reviews and approves the release of product baselines created by the supplier. The acquirer creates baselines for acquirer work products that describe the project, requirements, funding, schedule, and performance measures and makes a commitment to manage the project to those baselines.

Typical Work Products

1.    Baselines

2.    Description of baselines

Typical Supplier Deliverables

1.    Product baselines

2.    Description of product baselines

Subpractices

1.    Obtain authorization from the configuration control board (CCB) before creating or releasing baselines of configuration items.

2.    Create or release baselines only from configuration items in the configuration management system.

3.    Document the set of configuration items that are contained in a baseline.

4.    Make the current set of baselines readily available.