Checklist

When you have an essential task, or task that you do every day and required multiple steps, you’ve got a one good solution which has been proven in many fields, it is to use a checklist. We are human and make mistakes. Sometimes we make the same ones over and over, it is a human nature to forget one of the steps, or to have doubt, it has been done or not, besides the steps order, checklist eliminate that doubt. Also. it helps people to do things more efficiently, and avoid costly mistakes. It saves time and lives; it saves brain power for more creative things.

Making a checklist ensures you get your tasks done on time, also, it helps you to keep track of projects on deadline and ensures you’re organized throughout the day. It provides a consistency to the business, showing that what you expect from yourself and others as well. Keep a list manageable can to improve performance besides, accomplishes most of what you’ve written down on any given day. A checklist can be used for accountability by having the employees who finished each task initial next to it, also, it can be used as a reward scale when project is done.

Every business project needs to be managed quickly and well, that’s why each project should have its own checklist of objectives and tasks. As the project team works on it, it can cross off each piece. This helps to make sure everything gets done in a timely fashion and that no piece is forgotten or swept under the rug.

While making a checklist can seem tedious and boring, maybe awfully routine, it’s a tool that can truly help you survive and thrive in our modern, complex world. The practice can improve efficiency and minimizing mistakes. Besides, having a record and written papers traceability it showing accountability for each leg of any project, which makes it easier to pinpoint any troubles before they make their way down the pike. Every project is unique, and has its own aspect; therefore, there is no specific checklist template. It is the project manager’s responsibility to creates and initiates a checklist. That been said he/she have to revise it many times before the initiations take place. It is good to ask others and share their thoughts. Keeps in mind you can add and modify during the project progress. Checklists are not chiseled in stone but change over time to meet evolving needs checklist make complicated process seems easy, such as lunching vehicle into space. A good example showing the importance of following procedure and checklist:  After a long waiting period, and a day of suspense, lunching of the SpaceX’s first crewed mission to blast off from US soil in almost a decade called a scrub. SpaceX has made the right decision to call off the long-awaited launch of the two astronauts aboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, following their checklist. If successful, the launch will be the first time the feat has been performed by a privately owned company. I was amazed watching and following the lunching process and how they use a checklist for every detail which makes it seems easy and everyone can do it, even though the lunching has been postponed sixteen minutes before the final takeoff, for a weather condition.

Checklists are simple but effective tools for ensuring things get done right and in order. The beauty of a checklist is that it externalizes a process into the essential steps required to reach a desired outcome in a simple easy way. Checklists standardize a process and make it repeatable and predictable. Regardless if you complete your reports electronically or by hand, if you include that you referred to and performed a specific checklist for the presenting situation, it will strongly support your actions in any type of critical review. You performed the procedures specified, in order, is a pretty solid documentation point.

In conclusion; checklists are never going away. The simple reason for this is that they work. A checklist is ideal in situations where the complexity of the system exceeds the ability of even a single expert to remember all of the steps needed. Using a checklist forces best practices to be followed, even if they seem obvious, preventing costly mistakes.