Charlie Kindel on Windows Phone development: integrate, prioritize, focus
Charlie Kindel, the “Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Phone Application Platform & Developer Experience” (now there’s a mouthful!), announced a new blog right after Windows Phone 7 was revealed at MWC, and his first in-depth post admits that Windows Phone 7 Series “is not the way Microsoft does things”, and tells how they pulled off such a coup.
In meeting with other Microsoft executives working on Windows Phone, Kindel found they were all “deeply committed to not repeating history”:
In talking with Terry Myerson, Joe Belfiore, Henry Sanders, J Allard, and others I felt the passion for changing our game. I heard phrases like
“We will do a few things, and do them really, really well.”
“If you write a list write it in priority order.”
“Focus on the end user.”
“Don’t show our organizational boundaries to customers.”
He describes his 5 Ps, and goes on to detail some of the priorities and principles that helped to shape Windows Phone 7 Series development. It’s a great start for a blog about what may become an exciting new field, Windows Phone application development.
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