Comments on: Atul Gawande on why heroes use checklists

By: Checklists for Professional Financial Advisors « The Advisor's Checklist for Success

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:41:28 +0000

[...] Make them quick and easy to use. Write the lists for professionals, and it will easier to get them adopted, systematically used, and improving the consistency of your [...]

By: For the financial advisor, checklists aren’t instructions « The Advisor's Checklist for Success

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:37:45 +0000

[...] and branches. A list for any complicated task like that would take way too long to complete or could actually be insulting to the professional. Either way, it would soon be dropped and forgotten, and that wouldn’t [...]

By: Debra Russell

Debra Russell — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:34:05 +0000

I teach my clients to create systems for all aspects of their business and lives. It’s so funny, because they are often confused – what is a system really.

Usually it is simply a checklist that you follow!

Systems aren’t sexy, but they not only can save your life – they can save your business!

By: An unloved, low tech tool « The Advisor's Checklist for Success

An unloved, low tech tool « The Advisor's Checklist for Success — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:58:18 +0000

[...] the checklist. The cheapest, simplest little device to support your brain as it fulfills its higher purpose. [...]

By: Jim Takchess

Jim Takchess — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:45:49 +0000

This is available as a recorded book. Check out your library.

Regards,
Jim

By: Steve Bather

Steve Bather — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:30:17 +0000

Really enjoying the book, serendipitous for my work with UK Health care – when do you next visit UK Atul? really loved the Van Hallen story AND your reaction to it…thanks for such clarity in your work. please be in touch if you are in the UK.
Steve Bather

By: Jonathan Hartley

Jonathan Hartley — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:40:15 +0000

I guess one form that programmer checklist’s might take is posts like these, describing how to set up a canonical Python project:

Sean Gillies, Bootstrapping a Python project:
http://sgillies.net/blog/1012/bootstrapping-a-python-project

John Kleint, Python Project Howto
http://infinitemonkeycorps.net/docs/pph/

By: Do You Have Checklists You Use? Would You Share Them With Us? | CELT Resources

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:24:04 +0000

[...] You Have Checklists You Use? Would You Share Them With Us? Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 Prompted by a recent post by Jon Udell, I’ve been thinking about checklists over the last few days. Checklists, we are finding out, can [...]

By: Guidelines, Best Practices and Checklists - the Process Model for Unstructured Processes? | ActionBase Blog - Thoughts on Collaboration Process Management Unstructured Compliance and Audit

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:54:49 +0000

[...] New Yorker“ by Atul Gawande, that was referred by Jon Udell’s blog post on “Atul Gawande on why heroes use checklists“. Now of course checklists are a far cry from a full fledged process model. They don’t [...]

By: Checklists as Educational Resources | Mike Caulfield's Resource Page

Checklists as Educational Resources | Mike Caulfield's Resource Page — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:51:09 +0000

[...] by a recent post by Jon Udell, I’ve been thinking about checklists over the last few days. Checklists, we are finding out, [...]

By: Where else can we use checklists? « TRC – Advisory, Consulting, Engagement

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:38:38 +0000

[...] be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be [...]

By: Four short links: 5 March 2010 « Murder Manual

Four short links: 5 March 2010 « Murder Manual — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:15:26 +0000

[...] Practices in Web Development with Django and Python — great set of recommendations. (via Jon Udell’s article on [...]

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:12:18 +0000

Thanks Jon, an excellent post for helping more people live in an increasingly complex world. I’ll pass this on to students in financial engineering.

By: James MacLennan

James MacLennan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:56:57 +0000

Oops – here’s my original article …

http://www.cazh1.com/blogger/thoughts/2008/09/best-practices-for-process.shtml

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:38:01 +0000

Here’s that B-17 checklist:

http://www.galbreath.net/bill/checklist.htm

Very cool, thanks!