Checklists for Service Prep

I came to a conclusion last year reading David Wilcox's blog Undistract. It is a blog that recaps the weekend for his technical team and gives them updates on changes to how or what they do on Sundays. When I first starting reading it I noticed he kept telling his crew make sure you actually do your check list and mark off that you did the items on the checklist. I thought hey checklists what a great idea. I made some up and we started using them and it worked great. At some point we got lazy and did not follow the checklists on Sundays. Well one Sunday we tape some cables and I get asked should we do a line check. I say no we only added one vocal mic since Thursday we are good. Well the mike was patched wrong by yours truly. If we would have done the line check, which is on the checklist by the way, we would have found the problem before the band gets up stage for sound check. We will now always follow our check lists. Here are the checklists we use on Sundays.