The frequency and formality in which baselines are created are described in the CM Plan. The degree of formality is clearly much higher for a product being released to a customer than for executable releases within the internal project team. When the combined set of artifacts reach certain stages or levels of maturity, baselines are created to assist managing availability for release, reuse and so forth.

This work is primarily driven by the Configuration Manager role, where the typical need is to be able to assemble a product for release. The released product requires a Bill of Materials (BOM) that serves as a complete checklist of what is to be delivered to the customer. The released product will inevitably require release notes and training material as described in the Deployment activities.

The Integrator role contributes to this work by ensuring that artifacts delivered from the developer workspaces are integrated such that they can be incorporated into a independently testable build. The person playing the Integrator role needs to be familiar with Project CM Policies and Test Practices.