Get the Boring Stuff Off Your Desk
Make a review easy to follow up
Make this your own. Replace the bracketed details, provide the relevant material and choose a result you can inspect.
Your starting prompt
Review these [pages/documents] against the checklist I supply. Record the source, date checked, requirement, evidence and finding for each item. Mark inaccessible or ambiguous items as unverified. Do not mark a requirement as passed without evidence. Prepare an exceptions list for the responsible person to review.
Before you call it finished
- Confirm the current checklist.
- Record the source and date checked.
- Keep evidence beside each finding.
- Mark inaccessible items unverified and assign follow-up.
Your notes
My task:
My source material:
What I need to check:
My next step:
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