Portfolio Health

The Portfolio Health score is StartConsole's overall assessment of the condition of your portfolio at a point in time. It gives your leadership team a single, at-a-glance indicator of how well the portfolio is performing — before they have reviewed any individual initiative.

What the health score represents

The Portfolio Health score reflects the overall condition of the portfolio based on what StartConsole can observe: the current signals active across your initiatives, the delivery performance of active work, and the alignment of initiative investment to strategic priorities.

A high health score indicates a portfolio that is broadly on track, financially sound, and well-aligned to strategy. A declining health score indicates that conditions across the portfolio are deteriorating — more signals are active, more deliverables are overdue, or investment is drifting away from strategic priorities.

The health score is not a substitute for human review — it is a starting point that prompts the right questions before a portfolio review meeting.

Where the health score appears

The health score is displayed as a gauge on the Portfolio Dashboard — the first screen you see when you navigate to the Portfolio section. The gauge shows the current score and an indicator of whether it has improved or declined since the last portfolio refresh.

The gauge is colour-coded:

• Green zone — the portfolio is in good health; no urgent intervention needed
• Amber zone — the portfolio has elevated risk; review active signals and triage issues before the next review meeting
• Red zone — the portfolio requires immediate leadership attention; significant conditions are active across multiple initiatives

What drives the health score

The health score reflects observable portfolio conditions. The primary inputs are:

• Signal count and severity — more active signals, particularly Red severity signals, have a more significant effect on the score than Amber signals. A portfolio with no active signals will score higher than one with multiple critical signals.
• Delivery performance — the proportion of active initiatives and deliverables that are tracking on schedule contributes to the score. Overdue deliverables and stalled initiatives are reflected in the health assessment.
• Strategic alignment — the degree to which initiative investment is distributed in line with pillar priorities affects the score. Significant misalignment between where resources are committed and where the strategy says they should be is reflected as a health condition.

No weights, thresholds, or formulas are shown in the product. The score is evidence-based: it reflects what the data shows.

Drilling into the health score

From the dashboard gauge, click to open a breakdown of the conditions currently contributing to the health assessment. This breakdown shows: