What is it? Health checks are critical when there is uncertainty about a project outcome (i.e. Will it complete within its constraints? or Will the objective be met? or Are the risks and issues under proper control?).

What it is not? They are not themselves project recovery plans: health checks do not in themselves make a project safe. However, they establish the conditions to be met to make the project safe.

What’s different afterwards? A clear route map with associated management actions and a set of metrics to take control of a project and re-align it to planned outputs, outcomes and objective.