You are describing a construction checklist. Things to be done, like run unit tests before deploying, implement feature 12345, or weld a brace plate over the bolted supports.
Construction checklists are objective and empirical.
Whereas a submittal checklist contains communication tasks. For example, "Obtain signoff on requirements changes." In a narrow sense, there's a measurable outcome: Did the customer sign? But the real purpose of such an activity is to avoid a major misunderstanding. It's about communication and synchronizing knowledge, not measuring the progress of the project towards "done-ness."
To that extent, a stand-up serves the same purpose. Not that you have a checklist saying "hold standup on Monday, December 2nd," but rather that they are different paths to the same objective.
If your checklist exists to codify things you know at the time you compose the checklist, it's a construction checklist. Unit tests are another way to accomplish the same thing.
But if the purpose of your checklist is to make sure that Alice talks to Bob about the idea that Carol wants to pitch to Dave, that's a submittal checklist.
If that still isn't making sense to you, read the book before dismissing the idea just because I'm not explaining it persuasively.
Construction checklists are objective and empirical.
Whereas a submittal checklist contains communication tasks. For example, "Obtain signoff on requirements changes." In a narrow sense, there's a measurable outcome: Did the customer sign? But the real purpose of such an activity is to avoid a major misunderstanding. It's about communication and synchronizing knowledge, not measuring the progress of the project towards "done-ness."
To that extent, a stand-up serves the same purpose. Not that you have a checklist saying "hold standup on Monday, December 2nd," but rather that they are different paths to the same objective.
If your checklist exists to codify things you know at the time you compose the checklist, it's a construction checklist. Unit tests are another way to accomplish the same thing.
But if the purpose of your checklist is to make sure that Alice talks to Bob about the idea that Carol wants to pitch to Dave, that's a submittal checklist.
If that still isn't making sense to you, read the book before dismissing the idea just because I'm not explaining it persuasively.