Methods
Checklist
Facts:
Lifecycle stage: Planning
Contributors: Chauncey Wilson, Alice Preston
Version: 6/2009
A checklist is predefined set of guidelines, tasks, or other items against which products, processes, behaviors, user interface components, or something else, are compared.
Checklists are often condensations of voluminous style guides, detailed procedural guides, or other core source documents. Checklists can be used to verify proper procedures, compare designs to standards or guidelines, or evaluate a product. Advantages of checklists include reduced memory load, reduced errors, and reduced workload.
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Brykczynski, B. (1999). A survey of software inspection checklists. SIGSOFT Software. Eng. Notes 24, 1 (Jan. 1999), 82. Brykczynski reviews 117 checklists used for software inspections and provides examples of good and bad checklist items.
Burian, B. K. (2004). Emergency and abnormal checklist design factors influencing flight crew response: A case study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics 2004, Toulouse, France: EURISCO International. One purpose of a checklist is to provide instructions on how to respond to an emergency or abnormal event. This paper is a case study about how the crew of an airliner responded to a fire.
Easterby, R.S. (1967). Ergonomics Checklist: An Appraisal. Ergonomics 10(5):549- 556.
Gawande, A.(2007, December 10). The checklist: If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do? The New Yorker.
NASA/FAA. (2000). Developing operating documents: A manual of guidelines -- E_VERSION
