[MaulingMonkey]

> I'm a big fan of checklists as well; however, working through a checklist is still a manual process with room for human error.

I've had at least one checklist where, by following it religiously, human error was rare - and by paying proper attention, what errors did occur were noticeable and correctable.

Handed off the checklist to someone else (at management's request - it was eating up some of my time) and the human error rate went to nearly 100%. Great guy, good at his main job, just not fastidious about checklist discipline. I ended up creating an incredibly brittle, constantly breaking, broken-as-hell time sinking set of scripts to automate the process on our build servers, because that was less work. Sigh.