Checklists, Recipes and Algorithms draws from medicine, cooking, and programming to make the point that sometimes you just need to write down what you are going to do. You don't want to impose too much structure (that way lies spending a week to write a 2-line program (see analysis paralysis)), but you do need structure -- and explicit structure is easier to get right because it is easier to analyze.
(The Cardiac Arrest algorithm in the article is especially nicely presented.)
