Overview
The PRINCE2 manual (2002) says "A baseline is a snapshot of the stage of a product and any component products frozen at a point in time for a particular purpose". An example of this is when a plan is approved by the Project Board the approved plan must be baselined and filed in the configuration library by the Configuration Librarian.
A specialist product is baselined upon successful completion of a Quality Review. Products, once baselined, are given a version number and that version remains unchanged and is never discarded. All Baselined versions form part of the archived products when the project ends. By baselining products any released version can be recreated and referenced (e.g. if a CD with its baselined song format and baselined cover is re-released the original cover and CD can be re-created) Baselines are part of Configuration Management which is managed by the Configuration Librarian.
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- A product is baselined once it has passed to the Configuration Librarian following a successful test or Quality Review
- If the product is changed at a later date the Baseline version remains unaltered
- Changed products have a new version number assigned to them (as recorded in the Configuration Management records).
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