Checklists and Software Development
In 2011, Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I first became aware of it when I had the opportunity to hear him speak during his book tour for his latest book, Being Mortal, at the end of 2014, but only got around to reading it this week. The book is about managing complexity in the medical field, but can also be applied to software development. The central thesis of the book is that modern knowledge has made the world too complex for humans to handle unaided. Take any complex profession – medicine, architecture, etc...
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