{"id":636,"date":"2010-02-25T21:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2010-02-25T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:56:03","slug":"running-successful-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/02\/25\/running-successful-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Running successful projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years something that\u2019s interested me more and more is what makes one project successful and another, well less so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I guess I\u2019m quite fortunate that the projects I\u2019ve worked on have always turned out well, but some have been very hard work &#8211; far harder than they needed to be.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest difference would seem to be the people, not necessarily their skill or innate talent (though of course that helps!) but the support they are given to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, <a title=\"Charlie Kindel\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ckindel\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kindel<\/a>, who\u2019s a Programme Manager on the Windows Phone team at MS posted an <a title=\"Charlie Kindel: Focus focus focus\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ckindel\/archive\/2010\/02\/22\/focus-focus-focus.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">interesting account<\/a> of the work being undertaken around the new <a title=\"Windows Phone 7 Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone7series.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Phone 7 Series<\/a> phones.\u00a0 He talks about some of the principles he uses to run projects, most of which I\u2019d agree with.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s worth a read if this sort of stuff interests you.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Charlie Kindel: Focus focus focus\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ckindel\/archive\/2010\/02\/22\/focus-focus-focus.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Linky<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Kindel, who\u2019s a Programme Manager on the Windows Phone team at MS posted an interesting account of the work being undertaken around the new Windows Phone 7 Series phones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,370,369],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-microsoft","tag-project-management","tag-windows-phone-7-series","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}