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Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
Mar. 26th, 2011 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sanguinity17. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto.
While listening to this, I somewhat snarkily retitled it, "Atul Gawande Reinvents Project Management, Quality Management, and Human Factors, In the Most Credulous and Irritating Way Possible." That was despite also thinking, "Y'know, this could conceivably maybe perhaps be added to the Project Management curriculum, even as informal and gee-whiz as it is: it's readable, it clearly lays out the why, and in some ways it behaves like a series of case studies ready-made for class discussion. It could be particularly useful if you're trying to run a Project Management class in a curriculum that doesn't traditionally do Project Management: 'Project Management for Poets', so to speak."
...of course, that latter bit -- an intro to Project Management for a discipline that doesn't do Project Management -- is precisely what the book was intended to be. In the interest of being fair: it does it pretty well, too.
( In which Sanguinity is cranky about backhanded professional respect. )
Yeah, I dunno. It just got up under my skin, is all. If you haven't worked in a field that treats project and quality management as formal disciplines, The Checklist Manifesto may be a perfectly satisfactory read. Hey, you'll probably even learn a number of the principles of project and/or quality management! (Hey, watch me engage in professional snobbery now: most fields could greatly benefit from knowing and using those principles.)
Or maybe my grumbliness is merely professional envy that Gawande got to interview the flight checklist designers at Boeing. Fucking rockstars, those people are.
While listening to this, I somewhat snarkily retitled it, "Atul Gawande Reinvents Project Management, Quality Management, and Human Factors, In the Most Credulous and Irritating Way Possible." That was despite also thinking, "Y'know, this could conceivably maybe perhaps be added to the Project Management curriculum, even as informal and gee-whiz as it is: it's readable, it clearly lays out the why, and in some ways it behaves like a series of case studies ready-made for class discussion. It could be particularly useful if you're trying to run a Project Management class in a curriculum that doesn't traditionally do Project Management: 'Project Management for Poets', so to speak."
...of course, that latter bit -- an intro to Project Management for a discipline that doesn't do Project Management -- is precisely what the book was intended to be. In the interest of being fair: it does it pretty well, too.
( In which Sanguinity is cranky about backhanded professional respect. )
Yeah, I dunno. It just got up under my skin, is all. If you haven't worked in a field that treats project and quality management as formal disciplines, The Checklist Manifesto may be a perfectly satisfactory read. Hey, you'll probably even learn a number of the principles of project and/or quality management! (Hey, watch me engage in professional snobbery now: most fields could greatly benefit from knowing and using those principles.)
Or maybe my grumbliness is merely professional envy that Gawande got to interview the flight checklist designers at Boeing. Fucking rockstars, those people are.
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