Health

One glance at how the current cohort is doing: how long objects take from start to finish, how many are still open, whether cycle time is getting better or worse, how much work arrives over time, and which activities repeat.

What Health answers

Home tells you what the project contains. Health tells you how the objects in your current cohort are performing — and because it answers to the same filters as every other page, narrowing the cohort anywhere narrows Health too.

Open it from Health in the project sidebar. The count in the top-right says how many objects of the lens type are in view; Clear filters beside it takes you back to everything.

The page, top to bottom

Tiles

• Median duration and Mean duration — the cohort's cycle time. Hover a tile for the basis it was computed on
• Started — how many objects began in the period shown, by their first event
• Cycle-time trend — recent periods against earlier ones: are finished objects getting faster or slower?
• In flight — the share of objects that have not reached a process end point. Reads 100% with a note when no end points are set, because without them nothing counts as finished

Timeline by

A weekly / monthly switch for the two timelines below.

Duration distribution

A histogram of end-to-end cycle times across the cohort. Set target turns a duration you will not accept into an SLA target: a threshold, the number of objects that would breach it, and a rule that keeps counting.

Volume over time

How many objects arrive and how many finish, per week or per month.

Cycle time of finished objects

Cycle time over time, finished objects only, so a recent period is not dragged down by objects that have barely started. Empty when no end points are set, and it says why.

Activity details

One row per activity: the share of objects that have it, the average number of times it happens per object, the most it happened on any one object, and total events. An average above 1 means some objects repeat the step; a high "most on one object" is rework, and the table emphasises it. Starts folded when the project has more than fifteen activities.

First activity / Last activity

Where journeys start and where they end, side by side, as a share of the cohort. An unexpected entry in the "last" list is often an object that stopped rather than finished.

What the durations mean

Every duration on Health is a cycle time: a completed object is measured from its first event to the event that finished it; an object still in flight is measured from its first event to the latest point in the data, so something stuck for a year counts as a year rather than as the few days between its first and last events. "Finished" comes from the project's completion definitions, or its terminal events, set on the Data Scope page. With neither, every object is in flight — set end points before reading the tiles.

Waits between individual steps are a different measure and live on Durations.

Working with the rest of the product

• From Home — Home is inventory; Health is where the cohort statistics went
• Into Rules — Set target on the duration chart stores the threshold as a rule
• Into Durations — when the cycle time is long, Durations shows which waits make it so
• Exports — the tables download as CSV

Next steps

• Durations — which waits make up the cycle time
• Filters & Exploration — narrow the cohort Health describes
• Compare — put this cohort beside another

Read it filtered

Unfiltered, Health describes an average that nothing in your process actually is. Apply a filter — a region, a channel, a quarter — and read it again; the difference between the two readings is usually the finding.