[click170]

BBC's Horizon has a really good episode about checklists and how they're used to prevent mistakes in hospitals, and how they're being adopted in other environments in light of that success. It's called How To Avoid Mistakes In Surgery for the interested.

[virtuabhi]

Here's the book on this topic-

The Checklist Manifesto https://smile.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Righ...

[ndh2]

There's the article that this book is based on The Checklist http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist

[rgawdzik]

A must read if you don't want to make mistakes, it's given to all new Square employees.

[pgambling]

So glad someone brought up this book. It a good read and full of sound advice.

[FireBeyond]

There are very, very few situations in life where there's not enough time to take a time-out, sitrep, or checklist.

I work in EMS when not in IT, and even bringing a trauma or cardiac arrest patient into the Emergency Room, there is still time to review and consider.

If there's time in Emergency Medicine, there's time in IT.

[flukus]

I worked in software to help manage this for a while. There are still checklists but they are produced ahead of schedule. Every instrument a nurse takes off the tray is counted and then checked at the end for instance.

[settings]

Delivery room experience: before stitching my wife, the OB counted the pieces of gauze out loud with the nurse watching. They verbally confirmed the total with each other. A matching count and verbal confirmation were performed after the stitching. It inspired confidence seeing them perform this protocol.

[flukus]

With gauze in particular I think every nurse has a story of "that time we removed the septic gauze" with colorful descriptions of the accompanying smell.

[wingerlang]

Something related, I made a script that helps me to clean up my git repository of already-merged branches (I tend to not delete them until after a release cycle).

In this script I added a checklist of things to "check" before running it. It has worked in my favour every time I run it.

Here's how it looks like https://github.com/jontelang/Various-scripts/blob/master/Git...