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Four signals, one number, and a short list of things it deliberately ignores. Here is exactly how a project health score is put together.

Most async standups die of length. The trick is to let the repository write the boring half, so the humans only write the part that needs a human.

We went looking for what stalled projects have in common. It is almost never the code, and it is almost always visible three weeks before the last commit.

Five minutes, read-only scopes, and a score on the other side. A walkthrough of the only setup step Muster asks you to do.

Velocity tells you how fast a team moved last week. Cadence tells you whether anyone can rely on it next week. Only one of them survives contact with reality.