For routine tasks that are repeated with a narrow set underlying actions, checklists are easily devised. For something with as many degrees of freedom as progra

For routine tasks that are repeated with a narrow set underlying actions, checklists are easily devised. For something with as many degrees of freedom as programming, it's just too difficult to come up with something generic. Something more doable is having a checklist for your particular project, so everyone follows similar conventions and can add to the list as flaws in the methodology are discovered - a lot of projects operate this way already, so I think we're doing the best we can!