Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with checklists and SOPs. I'll edit my post to make sure that's clear as it's absolutely not what I'm trying to say at all. Quite the

Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with checklists and SOPs. I'll edit my post to make sure that's clear as it's absolutely not what I'm trying to say at all. Quite the contrary: I'm trying to say that to the fullest extent possible, those SOPs should be integrated into the process so that skipping them isn't an option. Well-run open-source projects have given us good examples of how this works. The goal is to marry the SOP and the actual completion of the task, to block off the shortcuts and require a minimum expenditure from external discipline/motivation reserves to get people to follow those SOPs.