Project Health Check
Assess project health across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, resources, stakeholder governance, and benefits. Build an evidence-based RAG profile, calculate an overall health index, identify deteriorating areas, and convert the diagnosis into targeted recovery actions.
Look Beyond a Single RAG Status to Understand What Is Driving Project Health.
A meaningful project health check combines evidence across multiple management dimensions. This demonstration uses an illustrative 1–5 health scale, trends, and RAG thresholds to distinguish stable strengths from deteriorating areas that require intervention.
- Scope: stability, change pressure and requirements clarity.
- Schedule: critical-path performance, milestone confidence and recovery capability.
- Cost: forecast position, variance and reserve adequacy.
- Quality: defects, acceptance performance and rework.
- Risk: exposure, overdue responses and emerging threats or opportunities.
- Resources: critical skills, capacity, continuity and workload.
- Stakeholder & Governance: decision effectiveness, sponsorship and stakeholder alignment.
- Benefits & Business Value: benefit forecast, adoption and continued business justification.
Project Health Check — Step by Step
Complete each locked stage before the next unlocks. Every guided reveal visibly changes the health dashboard.
Review the Health Model
Customer Service Digital Platform — Health Check
Review the eight health dimensions before calculating the overall project health index.
Focus Mode keeps the guided-learning pane and health dashboard together while hiding surrounding page content. Dashboard Full Screen shows only the health dashboard and can be launched from Focus Mode. Exiting Dashboard Full Screen returns to Focus Mode if Focus Mode was active.
Project Health Evidence and Actions
Scores, RAG classifications, trends, evidence and actions appear progressively with the guided health check.
| Dimension | Score | RAG | Trend | Evidence | Management Action |
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Test an Alternative Health Profile
Experiment Mode is isolated from the guided example. Change any health score from 1.0 to 5.0 and recalculate the overall health index, RAG distribution, worst dimension and governance response.
Quick Knowledge Check
Health Dimensions and Diagnostic Questions
| Dimension | What to Examine | Diagnostic Question |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Requirements stability, scope changes, acceptance clarity | Is the approved scope stable and sufficiently understood? |
| Schedule | Critical path, milestone confidence, recovery ability | Can the project still meet committed dates? |
| Cost | Forecast, variance, reserve and funding | Is the project financially forecast to remain within authorization? |
| Quality | Defects, rework, verification and acceptance | Are deliverables meeting required quality and acceptance levels? |
| Risk | Exposure, response progress, emerging threats/opportunities | Are material risks being actively controlled? |
| Resources | Critical skills, availability, overload and continuity | Does the project have the capability and capacity it needs? |
| Stakeholder & Governance | Sponsorship, decisions, escalation and alignment | Are stakeholders and governance enabling timely decisions? |
| Benefits & Business Value | Benefit forecast, adoption, value case and strategic relevance | Is the project still expected to deliver sufficient value? |