[rkangel]

I was also about to come here and say "this sounds a lot like a checklist". The Checklist Manifesto is one of those books that should be really boring but is both valuable and well written and I recommend to everyone.

[Tomte]

The book is overlong for what it has to say, and stuffed with things that are not really checklists (architect's building plans).

Fortunately there is a better version with not just all the meat, but also the best anecdotes included: Gawande's original article in The New Yorker.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist