A checklist can be gradually automated, step-by-step. Start by automating the low hanging fruit. After a few iterations you have a somewhat automated process

A checklist can be gradually automated, step-by-step. Start by automating the low hanging fruit. After a few iterations you have a somewhat automated process and some steps that are harder to automate. Those hard-to-automate steps can be annotated with detailed instructions that expose opportunities to partly automate them. You can break down each step more over time. As you run the checklist, you’ll learn & iterate. Then with the newly broken down steps, you can automate what’s become automatable. Repeat forever!