### Problem to solve > As a User of Epics and Issues, > > I need to be able to understand the current health status of work I am following, > > So I can respond to delays, problems, and reassign the proper resources. Review https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/Product/issues/593 for internal use case and context. [Large `Premium` user](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZNcMvq8_E8gH9eRnLEeJpmDfErvr52M0HkOrGlqH1Z0/edit?usp=sharing) stated their need for bi-weekly RAG (red/amber/green) reporting > I need Product health level reporting on: > * Resourcing efficiency > * Cost of a theme or epic > * Retrospective between planned effort vs actual effort > * Number of defects/incidents vs deployments ### Intended users * [Parker (Product Manager)](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas/#parker-product-manager) * [Delaney (Development Team Lead)](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas/#delaney-development-team-lead) ### Future Iteration Considerations **Risk Status Automation** * We should investigate any opportunity to enable automated risk statuses leveraging data in GitLab like assigned milestone dates, weight completed, time tracking, etc * Possibly provide the ability to set custom rules for automating transitions into each risk stage **High Level Risk Reporting** * We should investigate the best way to surface/report risk at a Project and Group level, aggregating risk status from multiple epics and presenting it in a single view. **Questions asked during Problem Validation:** * How are users currently tracking Health Status of work? * Via comments or updates to description * What are the pros/cons of those approaches^? * Major cons are the inability to quantify health up a chain of hierarchy or view it anywhere else in the tool * How do users expect to view and analyze Health Status over many issues and epics? * General consensus is at the Epic Level they'd like to see an aggregate health metric and see each issue's health displayed within the Epic Tree view