Baselines overview

A baseline is a snapshot of a set of projects and tasks at a point in time. Use baselines as the starting point for further development. Although it is possible to replicate baselines with DCM, the most common DCM methodology is to transfer folders and let each database create its own local baselines.

Folders are more lightweight than baselines, therefore DCM transfers are faster with folders.

If you do transfer baselines, note that the satellite database projects update members based on the latest baseline, regardless of which database it came from. Therefore, you need to be careful not to receive from a remote database a newer baseline that does not include your local tasks.

If you choose to transfer baselines, the best method is to create all baselines in the master database, and configure the satellite database process rules to be based on the latest baseline plus all local completed tasks.


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