Project Health Evaluation

Purpose

Measure whether governance actually improves the project instead of merely adding process.

Score only dimensions that matter to the project.

Can a new agent find the main entry points quickly?

Can the likely location of a file be inferred from its role?

Can important changes be connected to versions, branches, releases, or other recoverable states?

Can risky work be rolled back or restored?

Do active documents agree about important project facts?

Are obsolete, temporary, generated, and archived materials controlled?

How much unexplained entropy has accumulated?

How much context must a new human or agent reconstruct before productive work?

Use a 0-3 scale when a numerical view is useful:

Do not manufacture precision.

A useful review rhythm is event-based rather than time-based:

Do not schedule full audits simply because time has elapsed unless the project benefits from them.

Possible longitudinal metrics:

The best metric is whether the project becomes easier to change without becoming harder to understand.