There's a difference though. I've worked in ops teams where there were many such checklists in Word documents, wikis, or whatever. Standard procedures involved

There's a difference though. I've worked in ops teams where there were many such checklists in Word documents, wikis, or whatever. Standard procedures involved reading from these runbooks and following the steps. But here, you have code that plays the same role, but which can eventually be changed out with code that actually does the work for you. It's a seemingly small difference but it's actually huge if you have some decent developers who can spend a bit of time every once in a while pushing the needle forward in automating these manual steps. Another note: I've found that it's hard to even get teams to consider the minor change of using the code version instead of the wiki. Inertia is a real problem.