Projects can be daunting for so many different reasons. I find that a great way to confront the daunt, is to identify in excruciating specificity what is hard about the project.
Often it is the objective that requires clarification. Other times, there surfaces some hand-wavy element of the plan that needs fleshing out.
Sometimes it becomes clear that the project is not hard, its just hard for me! I find it wonderfully invigorating when the most effective thing to do is to stop, learn X, then proceed. (Thank you O'Reilly publishing!) New skills can also be hired, particularly when there is clarity on exactly what is needed!
Perhaps the most exciting is the opposite case, when the crux of the problem is truly novel and has to await delivery of an innovation from the R&D laboratory that is the subconscious. Oh, yes, you have to work on the problem, but it's almost always the background processing that finds the solution, no?
The deconstruction of project difficulty is also a great step towards better estimates of time to completion, placing the project even more solidly on a well-managed path to satisfying completion.
So, what kind of difficult are you up against right now?
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