Portfolio Workflow Anomaly Heatmap — Project × Week(3.1.11)

This is the executive summary view. Instead of reading the bypass and reopen signals project by project, the anomaly heatmap shows both at once — every project, every week, in a single color-coded grid.

A dark red cell means that project scored in the highest anomaly band that week. A white cell means it was operating normally. The trend arrows show whether things are getting better or worse. One glance replaces a manual weekly portfolio review.

What you can conclude

• A whole row of dark cells (one project across many weeks) indicates a chronic pattern that has not corrected itself, and the first project a reviewer would ask about.
• A whole column of dark cells (all projects in one week) points to a portfolio-wide event — a deployment, a process change, or an external pressure that affected everyone simultaneously.
• Cells moving from red toward white across recent weeks show the scores falling; the chart does not show why.

How this chart works

Heatmap with projects on one axis and weeks on the other. Each cell shows an anomaly score from 0 to 100 built from two measures of that project's status transitions in that week: bypasses (a transition from a not-started status straight into a done one) and reopens (a transition from a done status back to one that is not done). Bypasses weigh 0.35 and reopens 0.30, the weighted sum is divided by the week's total status transitions, and the result is scaled so that a week made up entirely of bypasses scores 100. A week with fewer than 10 status transitions is not scored and shows n/a; a project with no status transitions in a week has no cell to score and shows a dash; a measured 0 is drawn as 0. Cells are banded at 25 (elevated), 50 (high) and 75 (critical). Color ramp from white (nominal) to dark red (severe). Trend arrows show week-over-week direction per cell.

The week in progress is shown at its value so far. Because the week is not yet complete, it is marked as still in progress and does not enter the trend comparison.