Eating elephants

There's an old question: "How do you eat an elephant?" and the answer: "One bite at a time."

This project is a bit of an elephant. It's huge, I mean really massive.

So we've broken the project down into chunks, which can be 'eaten' one at a time.

This means that we can manage these chunks more easily, because they become more manageable. It's easier than trying to control one huge beast.

It also makes it easier to define the project, again, because it's now made up of smaller elements.

This may sound like a small development but actually, the impact is considerable.