Your observational skills need improvements. I only see a lot of dedicated work by James for a project that is very large in scope and has a long list of things to do in order to have all gears in place. Of course things must wait for their turn because others are first on the list. That is normal development, or how could it be different? I can't remember projects cancelled by James, on the contrary there were related third party projects that failed and James had to work more to make up for them.