[benjarrell]

I see this checklist is exactly what "DevOps" is, as stated in the first question:

  DevOps is all about alignment. It was born out of frustration and trouble between the disparate priorities and incentives of Development and Operations teams. Alignment comes from unifying towards a common goal.

I see your checklist as only coming from experience and institutional knowledge shared by having developers and operations working together.

[signal]

:) Yes exactly! Deployment automation to the rescue!