Scope baselines for Jira

Prove what the scope was.
And what changed since.

Jira keeps a change log, not a baseline. Baseline X snapshots every linked work item when you commit a baseline, then shows snapshot against current, field by field.

Runs on Atlassian Forge
ISO 27001 certified vendor
Free for up to 10 users
Baseline X - Baselines, Snapshots & Work Item History for Jira

Baseline X - Baselines & Snapshots for Jira

See how to commit a baseline, view a work item snapshot and compare it with the current state.

17+

Years building for Atlassian teams

744+

organisations

4,484,980+

users

500+

installs

Working With the Best in the World

Organizations worldwide rely on Optimizory apps to run their work inside Jira.

How it works

Baselines that live where the work happens.

Freeze the agreed scope, compare it with what is happening now and keep every work item linked to its baseline, all inside Jira.

Baseline Home

See what your scope was when you froze it.

Six weeks in, nobody can say what the agreed scope actually was. Baseline X keeps every baseline with its approver, commit date and linked work items in one place: the record of what was agreed, and when.

  • Every baseline in one list, grouped as Open, Committed or Completed
  • Name, description, owner, approver and an optional budget
  • Committing snapshots every linked work item, which stays editable in Jira
  • Completed baselines stay as a reference for reviews and reporting
Jira / Baseline X / Baseline Home
Baseline Home in Jira with committed baselines and linked work items
Snapshot vs current

Compare snapshot against current, field by field.

Jira's history tells you a field changed. It doesn't tell you what the baseline said. Baseline X stores the full work item state at commit and shows snapshot against current side by side.

  • Snapshot, Current and Compare views for every committed work item
  • Show changed fields only, to spot scope creep in seconds
  • Status, assignee, priority, estimates, fix versions and comments captured
  • Compare original estimates with what was actually spent
Jira / Baseline X / Compare
Snapshot and current values of a Jira work item compared field by field
Work item linking

Link a work item to any baseline from the work item.

Link a work item to one or many baselines from the work item view itself, so anyone opening it can see which baselines it belongs to and how its state has moved since each was committed.

  • Link one work item to several open baselines at once
  • Bulk-add work items from the baseline with Basic search, JQL or saved filters
  • A Baseline custom field you can show as a column in any list view
  • Unlink work items freely until the baseline is committed
Jira / Work item / Link to Baseline
Linking a Jira work item to baselines from the work item view
Why Baseline X

Hold the line on scope, with proof.

A committed baseline is a record nobody can quietly edit. Your data stays inside Atlassian.

Stockholm-icons / General / Shield-check Created with Sketch.

Stop scope creep early

Every addition and change is measured against the baseline that was agreed, so deviations show up before they cost you.

Stockholm-icons / Communication / Clipboard-check Created with Sketch.

One record of what was agreed

Everyone sees the same committed scope, with its approver and commit date. No more arguing over old emails.

Stockholm-icons / Communication / Shield-user Created with Sketch.

Visibility and accountability

See who changed what and when, against the state the team signed off on.

Stockholm-icons / Files / File-cloud Created with Sketch.

Runs on Atlassian Forge

Baseline X runs entirely on Atlassian's infrastructure. It has no external database, and your Jira data is not sent to Optimizory.

Stockholm-icons / Map / Marker#1 Created with Sketch.

Government Cloud ready

Available on Atlassian Government Cloud, with US data residency and a ready-made app authorization template for your security team.

Stockholm-icons / Files / Protected-file Created with Sketch.

ISO-certified vendor

Built by Optimizory: ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, with 17+ years in the Atlassian ecosystem.

Pricing

Big-team power. Small-team price.

Free up to 10 users

Billed by Atlassian. 30-day free trial for any team size.

Up to 2x lower cost

100-user Jira site

  / month with Baseline X
  / month with leading alternatives
Simple per-user pricing

Baseline X

  / user / month

Starting price for teams of 11 to 100 users. The more users you add, the less each one costs.

  • Free up to 10 users
  • From  /user/month
  • Cheaper per user as your team grows
  • 30-day free trial

Estimate your monthly cost

Number of users on your Jira Cloud site:

  / month
 
UsersPer user / month

Live prices from the Atlassian Marketplace.

Start 30-day free trial
Team onboarding

Get your team up and running.

Pick the kind of help you need - from a quick demo to a free onboarding session for your whole team.

See it live

30-min live demo

A walkthrough of Baseline X tailored to your use case, with your questions answered.

For: teams evaluating Baseline X

Book a demo
Free
Team onboarding

Free onboarding session

We set up Baseline X with you and train your admins and users on your own projects.

For: new customers and trial users

Schedule onboarding
Learn at your own pace

Self-serve

Step-by-step docs, tutorials and webinars - available anytime.

For: anyone, anytime

User Guide
Step 1
Book a slot

Choose a time that suits your team.

Step 2
Tell us your process

Share how your team works today.

Step 3
We train your team

Then check in after 2 weeks to make sure it sticks.

Rolling out to a large or regulated team? Ask about custom training and train-the-trainer sessions.

Customer success stories

Trusted by teams using Optimizory apps

What customers say about our Jira apps and support on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Links Explorer

“This app is easy to view the Link relationships between Jira work items, especially the traceability report. I like this app design.”

Yong YangAtlassian Solution Consultant, Hangzhou Cloze Technology
Links Explorer

“Sent a request in for support and it was solved within hours, great product.”

David StoddardSenior Project Manager, L3Harris
RMsis

“The Optimizory support team were superb in providing us with prompt and helpful responses to our request for support (despite the time zone difference)!”

Zayn FojdarMultidisciplinary Scrum Master, Ultra Maritime
Links Explorer

“Being able to see up and down the chain of linked tickets has helped our users keep better track of their data relationship. Being able to easily jump to related tickets that are removed by 3 layers is so helpful. The tech support is amazing, they make sure you are taken care of.”

Links Explorer

“Managing large or complex projects in Jira can be overwhelming. Links Explorer helped us to break down complex projects into several manageable chunks specially the tree view, which makes it easy to identify dependencies and potential bottlenecks, leading us to improve our efficiency and project delivery.”

Ankit NegiSoftware Engineer, Suzuki Digital Private Limited
Links Explorer

“Vendor's support works very well - colleagues were keen to debug the issue in few live sessions (despite the fact that it seemed to be instance-specific issue) and to prepare improved plugin version that is proofed from further issues of that kind. Big thanks!”

Stanisław BiałowąsLinks Explorer customer
RMsis

“This is a very great product, engaged with JIRA closely, we can track the whole life cycle from requirement input, finalized to PRD, design tasks to implement it, test cases to verify, everyone in project can get a clear picture for the current status of requirement. Another important thing is the prompt and great technical support, really appreciate their professional support knowledge and skill, a quick and direct debug way via remote session is very helpful to resolve field issues, not only for one-time, each support is prompt and great!!”

Eason WangRMsis customer
RMsis

“This is a great product. We have over 70 users registered and live requirements data is also available online (intranet) using Confluence and JIRA. Projects with several thousand requirements are handled with ease. I started with v1.7.8 in 2014, having used early DOORS versions before that. All feature requests and bug reports have been received with enthusiasm by the technical support team and responded to promptly. I feel privileged to have contributed to its development. The spreadsheet-style presentation of data helps to make the user interface intuitive. Editing single requirements and sets is straightforward with useful bulk operations. For requirements analysis, maximum use is made of selectable field types for easy manipulation and review.”

Richard CurtisRMsis customer
RMsis

“Great product and great support...! We wanted a JIRA integrated requirements management tool that provided traceability and reporting throughout the development and test cycle and RMsis gave us exactly what we wanted. Some might think the UI is a bit 'spreadsheety', but in our organisation, this was actually a benefit providing familiarity for our users to begin using it with. We have made good use of the API and now have our automated tests updating RMsis giving us complete lifecycle tracking. Also for us, the fact it uses it own standalone database and doesn't follow the standard JIRA user license model, made procurement in a large organisation like ours much easier. We intend to use it on more projects in the near future.... Well done team, keep up the good work..!”

Simon OfficerRMsis customer
RMsis

“simply a great plugin + requirements great - even larger amounts (2000+) are handled smoothly + requirements great - create your own custom fields + quality great - I have not found a bug after two month + support wonderful - quick reply with all information, no email ping pong with typical nonsense questions - downside, more rich text options in requirement explanation would be great - downside, test cases have potential (link to versions and input) Great plugin, I would recommend it”

lesswire GmbHRMsis customer
RMsis

“I love this plugin. Installation is very easy, configuration is so simple and traceability is now well done with requirements, issue and test case. Some things are missed yet but Optimizory Technologies is very open and they answer everytime I suggested a feature, an improvement or a bug...and it's so nice to see our suggestions in a release.”

Mickael ThieventRMsis customer

“Really nice product - especially like the reports on the project page.”

Michael BlakeSenior Atlassian Tools Administrator, CMS
FAQ

Baseline X is a Forge app for Jira Cloud that creates baselines of Jira work items. A baseline is a snapshot of selected work items at a point in time, so you can track progress against the plan and see what changed from the agreed scope. See the introduction.

Jira's history tells you that a field changed. Baseline X tells you what the baseline said, and shows snapshot against current side by side, with an option to show changed fields only. See Issue snapshot view.

No. Committing takes a frozen snapshot of every field on the linked work items. The work items stay fully editable in Jira, and your workflows are unchanged. The snapshot is your fixed reference point, and Jira stays your live working data.

Snapshots within a baseline are versioned. When a change is approved, you capture a new version for just the affected work items, and the original commitment stays on record. For larger change cycles, you can duplicate an existing baseline and update only the work items that changed, so you don't have to rebuild the whole baseline.

Yes. With the historical view, you can open any earlier snapshot (for example, January, February or March) and compare your first commitment with the latest one. You see every change made in between, not just the net difference.

Yes. Work items can be linked through any saved filter or JQL query, including compound queries across fix versions, components and custom fields. There is no limit on the number of work items per baseline. See Link work items to a baseline.

Admins grant manage access to specific users, groups or projects, and have full manage access by default. Everyone else gets view-only access, so they can review baselines but can't commit, complete or remove them. This keeps baselines under the governance of whoever approves commitments.

Not at the moment. Baselines are created and committed from within the app. Automation support is on our roadmap.

Baseline X runs entirely on Atlassian infrastructure and inherits Jira Cloud's security controls. Optimizory is ISO 27001 certified. Full details are on the Privacy and Security tab of the Marketplace listing.

Yes. Baseline X runs on Atlassian Government Cloud (see the Government Cloud guide), and there is a separate version for Jira Data Center (see the Data Center docs).

Marketplace app pricing is based on the number of licensed users on your Jira site, matched to Atlassian's user tiers. You buy the app for the applicable user tier, not for a hand-picked subset of users, so if your Jira user count moves into a higher or lower tier, the app license and renewal pricing adjust to that tier. Site admins are included only if they are licensed Jira users; they are not billed separately. Baseline X is free for up to 10 users and starts at $0.82 per user per month. See the pricing section.

Live training is included in the app purchase at no extra cost, along with recorded walkthroughs for view-only users. Ongoing support comes through our service desk with a 24-hour response time, email at support@optimizory.com, and screen share sessions you can book on Calendly.

Know what was agreed. See what changed.

Install Baseline X from the Atlassian Marketplace and commit your first baseline today. Free for up to 10 users.

Our Products Portfolio

Have any queries?

Please send a mail to support@optimizory.com to get in touch with us.