For Cessna's I start at the fuel selector and go in a counter clockwise circle through the engine controls, circuit breakers, engine guages, radio stack, flight instruments, switch panel and back to the engine controls. This flow works for every phase of flight and the engine failure drill.
That's what I've worked out for myself for engine failure in a Cessna - glad to know I've got something right.
And it works, too, for real engine failures.