Schedule Health Score Overview

The Schedule Health Score tool enables you to evaluate the quality of your project schedule against a set of criteria. Using common schedule analysis metrics, the tool can help to ensure compliance with corporate or industry standards. Use the tool to identify problem areas in your schedule, and then consider methods to correct the issues that arise. Issues might include logic errors such as open ends, dangling activities, missing relationship logic, or unrealistic date constraints that might negatively affect your project.

Each time you run the scheduler on your current schedule, baseline, or a scenario, the tool automatically analyzes your activities and produces a score for each metric, known as a check. The check score indicates the level to which your activities are meeting the check's defined criteria. Typically, checks with a higher score require more immediate attention. Individual check scores contribute to an overall schedule health score. A higher project schedule health score indicates a higher quality schedule.

Use the tool results to identify activities that meet each check's criteria, and then adjust those activities to generate a more favorable score. Check details, including target values, weighting values, and check descriptions, can be modified in the project settings. Individual checks can be enabled or disabled according to your organization's needs. You can include schedule health score metrics in charts, dashboards, and reports. You can also export a Schedule Health Score results spreadsheet, and use it to regularly communicate schedule health findings to project managers and stakeholders for broader visibility and tracking.

Configure Schedule Health settings at the project level, or create default settings at the workspace level. You have the option to push these settings down and apply them to specified projects or to all projects in a workspace. You can also push settings down to specified workspaces or to all child workspaces in a hierarchy. Newly created workspaces and projects within a workspace will inherit updated Schedule Health settings. See Apply Default Schedule Health Check Settings at the Workspace Level.

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