checklists

Much of it is cross-pollination from aviation safety, where use of checklists has been standard procedure for a long time.

The guys here have been helpful with their suggestions but for me checklists didn't work.

I'd even use something like Basecamp (especially with their awesome checklists and milestones calendars) to manage it all.

I can recommend [1] as a good read on the topic of checklists for surgeons and pilots.

Instead, there are checklists, redundant safety mechanisms, and the like, all of which greatly improve the airline success rate.

There was a time too when I was so detached from the real world that checklists looked vague, silly even.

Whoever wrote the article seems to have a strong belief in process or procedure or even checklists as a way to produce correct results.

The attempts to get surgical checklists[1] (a basic aviation tool) adopted see to suggest that it is very, very amazing that outcomes are so good.

The instructions are pretty clear and if someone cannot follow step one, they are probably not going to be able to follow our internal checklists.

We had budgets, inventories, checklists, all that kind of stuff.

Forts had defined compliance checklists in the old times.

Usually I'll set up checklists for subsets of tasks and cards for larger projects or meetings (so I can add separate notes, files, etc.).

Formal meetings with scribes and reviewers and procedures and checklists are not the same as "here, check out this patch and merge it if you like it".

Interestingly enough, in aviation you do see checklists with dozens or even hundreds of items that need to be "clicked" every time, and incredibly complicated UIs that take a huge amount of training to be able to use effectively.

On the other hand, the typical inspection is made to look "comprehensive" with big long checklists but most of the items are complete nonsense, and no real invasive inspection of the property is typically taking place, so I can see why some people just dispose with the ritual.

Subjective experience is not a reliable indicator of judgment accuracy." They agree on almost every point, they disagree on the usefulness of checklists on low-validity environments and on "whether there’s more to be gained by listening to intuitions or by stifling them until you have a chance to get all the information." [2] [1] 2009, Conditions for intuitive expertise: a failure to disagree., Kahneman, Klein.

Checklists (as pioneered by airlines) save lives in medicine.

Checklists were actually bad for me, because I would realise that I couldn't do some/most of them - and then I would feel worse.