2.3. Baseline Discipline — Making Intent Reconstructable

Across this module I've used one word in almost every sentence: baseline. Requirements are measured against a baseline. The closed-loop change process updates the baseline. Conformance means matching the baseline. It's the quiet word underneath everything — and almost nobody defines it properly. So this episode fixes that. What a baseline actually is, why it's the thing that lets you reproduce and certify your product, and how a small team keeps it disciplined without a huge process. Get this right and Module two clicks into place. Get it wrong and none of the rest holds