In many professions, checklists have become a common standard, according to a new book called The Checklist Manifesto. The author, Atul Gawande, writes that as today’s jobs become more complex, checklists that outline proper procedures are a way to decrease errors and mistakes.
The book focuses on the checklists used by healthcare professionals for complex procedures…surgeries, blood transfusions, etc. Gawande found that over a three month period with 8000 patients in hospitals around world, the use of checklists decreased death rates by 46%!!
Your projects may not literally be life or death situations (even though they may seem like it), but they can still produce serious consequences when not done correctly. The PMI PMBOK Guide’s Process Groups and Knowledge Areas provide a checklist of sorts for use during a project’s lifetime. But I’m sure that some project managers have their own checklists that they use to help them. Do you? Tell us about it!
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