In critical situations where the a bad outcome is really, really negative, checklists are fine. I've seen checklists abused, however, in project management. Wh

In critical situations where the a bad outcome is really, really negative, checklists are fine. I've seen checklists abused, however, in project management. Where some folks are apt to generate a "one-size-fits-all" checklist for every project large or small. It ends up becoming boilerplate, and worse, people take their tasks less seriously if trivial, nebulous or non-applicable stuff is grouped onto the same footing as things which take hard work. Everything ends up being a checklist item with check-box and a date on it.