From the course: Tech Ethics: Avoiding Unintended Consequences
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Why use checklists?
From the course: Tech Ethics: Avoiding Unintended Consequences
Why use checklists?
- Did you know there's a simple tool that anyone and everyone can use that saves millions of lives a day? It's used by everyone from pilots, doctors, astronauts, to the military. It's used by manufacturers of airplanes, cars, and almost everything you use in the physical world today. It's called a checklist. And for some reason, we rarely apply this simple and effective process to the tech industry. There's really no reason tech hasn't adopted simple checklists more regularly, and honestly, there's no excuse. A simple checklist can be transformative to your team, product, company, and industry, if you use it. Atul Gawande, author of "The Checklist Manifesto", puts it this way. "We are besieged by simple problems, "checklists can provide protection." So let's look at how checklists can impact your work and how to create your own. We'll walk through some key questions that you can apply today to your product and processes…
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