You're right there's a lot of value in writing down what you need to do on a personal level, adapt and modify it to suit yourself and the situation at hand. It'

You're right there's a lot of value in writing down what you need to do on a personal level, adapt and modify it to suit yourself and the situation at hand. It's not "your boss" and that's why it helps. I am talking about checklists devised in a work situation by "a boss" as an integral part of how work is actually preformed. It's sooo easy for these things to get stupid when they're abused. A checklist, used improperly, is like a pre-waterfall workflow-- almost militaristic in it's simplicity.