I'm currently in the process of introducing checklists into a process, and the hardest part of the entire endeavor is giving the people who are using the checkl

I'm currently in the process of introducing checklists into a process, and the hardest part of the entire endeavor is giving the people who are using the checklist the power to modify them, and keeping other people from forcing the system to have chiseled into stone type checklists. So far, the biggest contributor to 'checklist fatigue' among people using the system is from them not being able to modify the checklist to suit the task at hand. Checklists really need to be living documents, so errors and usability improvements can be made. The article does mention that the more proscribed from on-high the checklist was, the more the performance of the checklist was degraded.