Want a Simple Way to Highlight Project Health?

Tracking project health is essential to the success of project management. Assessing a project at any point during its lifecycle helps understand its performance against the set goals. Health checks also provide valuable insights into a project’s adherence to the methodology’s best practices.

NetSuite OpenAir program recognizes the value of highlighting project health. It, therefore, provides necessary measures that allow its users to carry out an independent assessment of their projects.

Project Health Check in OpenAir

A vast majority of users use some measurement metric to judge how well a project performs using OpenAir. This often involves going with the “Red,” “Yellow,” “Green” or 1-5 scale aspects of assessment.

Usually, the assessment provides useful data regarding the status of a project. Whether they are performing poorly, are up to standards, or performing better than expected.

The problem with this conventional approach is that it provides a picture of the overall project in its entirety. It also takes time to generate a detailed health report. As established earlier, health checks are essential. Therefore, depending on your project, you sometimes need timely feedback to make quick decisions. Also, you may only be interested in information regarding a specific project area, not the whole thing.

Simpler and Faster Way to Highlight Project Health

Using an OpenAir script, you can put in place indicators to highlight issues within a project faster and more simply. This involves defining project health KPIs, plugging them into the script, and producing a set of data regarding the specific field of assessment.

This new feature comes in handy, particularly when you’re not interested in the report of the whole project but in certain aspects. For example, assessing if and when you may run out of budget.

Using this new script, you can determine whether you’re red on budget, green on the timeline, yellow on schedule, and so on, as opposed to yellow on the entire project. In other words, you can break down health checks into specific project areas.

Final Thoughts

Project health checks are essential in many ways. The ability to generate faster and more specific health data is even more important. You might be interested in different performance data at different points in a project’s life cycle.

During these times, a project health report in its entirety becomes less useful. As such, you can implement an OpenAir script to customize your project health highlights to specific data needs. All you need to do is plug in a health KPI of choice, and health check data is presented immediately.

Interested in learning how OpenAir Scripts can add superpowers to your OpenAir system? Contact us to schedule a meeting with one of our experts.