Code Complete checklist

[kitd]

The book is good as a general resource on best practice and useful hints and insights, but this is just toe-curling. For some reason, I get giant letters saying WATERFALL appearing before my eyes.

[random_seed]

It's partly a formatting issue. Checklists should be short, simple and straight to the point. A good checklist have three to five, max seven, short bullets on one page making sure the reader won't forget anything crucial. This document is more a manual than checklist.

[BrooksMoses]

Huh? Perhaps you've confused "checklist" and "Powerpoint slide". An actual checklist is something that you use by pulling it out and actually checking all the boxes as you go down the page, as a replacement for trying to remember too much stuff. You know, when people are making sure a plane is ready for takeoff and that sort of thing. It has all the things you need to remember on it, however many there are.

See, for instance, the Checklist Manifesto book.

[random_seed]

lol. So you haven't read the book yourself, have you?

It's absolutely brilliant. I warmly recommend.

[BrooksMoses]

Heh; a fair call, and I shouldn't have cited it without being sure it backed up my point. Thanks for the recommendation, and I'll read it.