Project Delivery
Whether the plan is credible and the schedule is grounded in evidence.
Typical warning signs
- Milestones missed repeatedly
- Plan never re-baselined
- Contingency already consumed
Diagnostic categories
Ten dimensions. One picture of delivery risk.
A project rarely has one problem. It has a pattern across delivery, quality and governance that nobody has looked at together.
Testing & QA
Whether testing is actually reducing risk or simply consuming time.
Typical warning signs
- No agreed test strategy
- Regression not trusted
- Coverage unknown
Defects
What the defect profile says about the underlying quality of the build.
Typical warning signs
- Backlog growing
- Defects reopened
- No root-cause analysis
Requirements
Whether what is being built can be tested, and whether the business agrees.
Typical warning signs
- Untestable requirements
- Constant churn
- No traceability
UAT
Whether UAT is confirming readiness or discovering fundamental problems.
Typical warning signs
- UAT started late
- Business users unavailable
- Major defects found in UAT
Environments
Whether the places you test in resemble the place you go live in.
Typical warning signs
- Frequent outages
- Non-representative config
- Unreliable test data
Releases
Whether deployment is a controlled event or a recurring risk.
Typical warning signs
- Dates keep moving
- Unexpected deployment issues
- Rollback unproven
Governance
Whether leadership is seeing an accurate picture in time to act.
Typical warning signs
- Green dashboards, red teams
- No quality owner
- No independent challenge
Vendors
Whether third-party quality is validated or simply accepted.
Typical warning signs
- Assurance without evidence
- Unclear responsibilities
- Integration risk unowned
Team Capability
Whether the team is equipped for the assurance the change demands.
Typical warning signs
- Testing capability gap
- Key-person dependency
- High turnover
See how your project scores across all ten.
The Project Health Check takes about ten minutes and gives you an indicative diagnosis immediately.