Saturday, January 17, 2009

Leverage Checklists for Success









Whether you are a project manager or surgeon, don't hesitate to take advantage of the simple checklist to improve the quality of your actions. Recycle appropriate project lessons-learned into your checklist to keep it evergreen. ...

... "But a year after surgical teams at eight hospitals adopted a 19-item checklist, the average patient death rate fell more than 40 percent and the rate of complications fell by about a third, the researchers reported. " ...


Via NYTimes: Simple Checklist

UPDATE: Cool and recent reference post on checklists via ProductiveWise.

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posted by Frank M @ 4:56 PM, Read More...  
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At 5:48 PM, Anonymous Eyal Sela said...

I agree. a few days ago I have written a post covering that topic exactly. Checklists indeed can improve outputs.

 
At 5:19 PM, Blogger Frank M said...

Thanks, Eyal. Great post.

 
At 1:47 PM, Anonymous Pawel Brodzinski said...

We use checklists as a tool to improve our learning process. We often produce them as an outcome from our lesson learned session.

 
At 9:19 PM, Blogger Frank M said...

That's excellent, Pawel. Often, lessons are documented but not really learned-from. I like you idea of updating the checklists with the learnings.

 

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