Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
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Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
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Re: Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
#2> Making a good human-usable checklist takes a lot of workshopping. Airlines are still constantly revising their 200-page manual of individually optimized checklists for every possible emergency, as plane designs change and new safety data rolls in.
When I first read the book a couple years ago, and introduced checklists into my team, I found that there was no great tool to manage and create checklists and share it with my team. We were basically copy pasting messages over and over in Slack and "checking" them off manually by editing the message. Is there a tool or SaaS out there that solves this problem? (If not, great startup idea?)
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#3I've always wondered how this merits a whole book...I mean, isn't the gist of it:
"checklists are a good idea, even smart people benefit from them"
??
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#4I liked this book, but it’s a prime example of an article or blog post that gets turned into a book by adding a bunch of things that don’t really provide more useful information, but seem to serve as filler to make it book-length.
I read the book, and I read the article that the book was based on. I don’t recall learning anything from the book that I hadn’t already learned from the article.
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#5Legitimate question, is there enough interesting information in this book worth reading if you already agree with the premise, that in complex situations checklists can be good?
I've known about it for awhile and this review does a good job at providing a real-world example of where it's useful, so other than ideas of how to make good checklists I'm not sure if actually reading it is something I should do
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#6> Making a good human-usable checklist takes a lot of workshopping. Airlines are still constantly revising their 200-page manual of individually optimized checklists for every possible emergency, as plane designs change and new safety data rolls in. When I first read the book a couple years ago, and introduced checklists into my team, I found that there was no great tool to manage and create checklists and share it w…
Most project management systems have methods for dealing with checklists, this is definitely not what slack is designed to do no matter how much they market it as a "productivity tool"
So if you're not using something for project management first you need one of those, but just about everyone does, and once you have one you can start using it's checklist features
Then it depends on what that specific software offers, but even if it doesn't have a true feature for creating "templatized checklists" which I assume people want so they can repeat the same list, most have duplication functionality so you can just create one as a template and duplicate it as needed.
Re: Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
#7Legitimate question, is there enough interesting information in this book worth reading if you already agree with the premise, that in complex situations checklists can be good? I've known about it for awhile and this review does a good job at providing a real-world example of where it's useful, so other than ideas of how to make good checklists I'm not sure if actually reading it is something I should do
I skimmed it years ago, it could really just be a long essay.
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#8I liked this book, but it’s a prime example of an article or blog post that gets turned into a book by adding a bunch of things that don’t really provide more useful information, but seem to serve as filler to make it book-length. I read the book, and I read the article that the book was based on. I don’t recall learning anything from the book that I hadn’t already learned from the article.
What article was the book based on?
Re: Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
#9I liked this book, but it’s a prime example of an article or blog post that gets turned into a book by adding a bunch of things that don’t really provide more useful information, but seem to serve as filler to make it book-length. I read the book, and I read the article that the book was based on. I don’t recall learning anything from the book that I hadn’t already learned from the article.
What article was the book based on?
Re: Book review: The Checklist Manifesto
#10I liked this book, but it’s a prime example of an article or blog post that gets turned into a book by adding a bunch of things that don’t really provide more useful information, but seem to serve as filler to make it book-length. I read the book, and I read the article that the book was based on. I don’t recall learning anything from the book that I hadn’t already learned from the article.
Agreed, I always wondered how those “Top 100 business books summarized!” books fit all that “content” into one book, then I read Checklist Manifesto…