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Checklists may sound dumb and boring, but they are actually great! They make it easy to just do the job and not think much about its structure, somehow reducing
by wruza 4y ago
Checklists may sound dumb and boring, but they are actually great! They make it easy to just do the job and not think much about its structure, somehow reducing overall tediousness. Checklists together with snippets in some sort of a knowledge base (I simply use OBTF.txt with folds) help with processes that are too hard to automate timely and/or completely. This also enables gradual automation and knowledge collection rather than living in all-or-nothing world. Also, I find it very useful when your knowledge base grows without being shaped for and nailed down to a specific project with its own quirks. It becomes your own well-commented stdlib for doing things.
- theK 4y agoI also love the idea of having the hard to automate stuff be encoded in checklists (or creating checklists as a first step in formalizing a process). My biggest issue was that every time I looked there weren't tools around that would support this. If there was a web based, multi user tool (ideally open source) that allows you to define checklists and then have multiple "instantiations" of them to produce some form of paper trail of the execution that would be great!