Climbing Life Lessons: Failure

Posted on Mon 17 February 2025 in Climbing Life Lessons • Tagged with project-management, project-planning, research, rant, time-management, risk-management

Failure is inevitable and also a learning opportunity, so how you deal with it matters.


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Climbing Life Lessons: Reassessing Changing Risk

Posted on Fri 14 July 2023 in Climbing Life Lessons • Tagged with project-management, project-planning, research, rant, time-management, risk-management

Reassessing risk as conditions change is critical in the backcountry.


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Case for Experts in Management

Posted on Sat 22 May 2021 in Productivity • Tagged with project-management, rant

Empathy & a growth mindset are equally important to both managers & individual contributors.


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Climbing Life Lessons: Offwidths

Posted on Sat 01 May 2021 in Climbing Life Lessons • Tagged with agile, project-management, project-planning, research, rant, time-management, risk-management

An offwidth is a difficult climb, too big for hand jams, but too small to chimney.


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Iterative Project Planning in Research and Development

Posted on Fri 16 June 2017 in Productivity • Tagged with agile, kanban, scrum, development, research, time-management, project-management, project-planning

Iterative planning is a a successful strategy for research and development.


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