How project & programme health works
Every project shows a health indicator: a RAG colour (red / amber / green) and a 0–100 score. This page explains exactly what they mean — they’re computed from data the platform already has, not entered by hand.
The four dimensions
Section titled “The four dimensions”Project health is built from four signals:
| Dimension | What it reflects |
|---|---|
| Sentiment | The mood of recent communications, weighted by who said it. |
| Delivery | How work is actually flowing (from your tracker). |
| Risk & issues | The state of the risk and issue registers. |
| Actions | Whether action items are on track or overdue. |
On the project Overview these appear as four dots — S / D / R / A — so you can see at a glance which dimension is dragging.
Weakest-link RAG
Section titled “Weakest-link RAG”The project’s colour is set by its worst dimension — its weakest link. A project with three green dimensions and one red one is red, because the red one is what needs attention. This is deliberate: health is a prompt to act, not an average that hides problems.
- 🟢 Green — healthy
- 🟡 Amber — at risk
- 🔴 Red — critical
- ⚪ Grey — no data yet
The 0–100 score sits alongside the colour as a magnitude, so you can compare two projects that are both, say, amber.
”Biggest drag”
Section titled “”Biggest drag””The Overview names the biggest drag — the specific dimension pulling the project down — so you know where to look first.
Rolling up to programmes and clients
Section titled “Rolling up to programmes and clients”The same idea repeats upward:
- A programme’s health is a weakest-link rollup of its member projects.
- A client’s health rolls up from its projects in turn.
So a single struggling project will surface at the programme and client level rather than being averaged away.