I often come across checklists. Such checklists are used to assess the quality of, say, a database. See here for an example of such a checklist. In this case, we have a checklist that is created to assess the quality of a Teradata database.
Such checklist are very interesting. They are generally based on a very good understanding of the subject area. Moreover, such knowledge is written in a very concise form which provides the reader with a quick insight as to whether the list might benefit the reader.
