Whenever there's a project to be done, regardless how difficult, I always start with "Just do it, what's keeping you?". Deceptively simple, but it allows to invoke resrouces and problem solving at the right time and in the right quantity.
Before this realization I would try to build a strategy or implementation plan by analogy: what's something similar I've done before that could inform current project? But this line of thinking doesn't utilize critical thinking, merely copying methods from another project.
It's healthy and necessary to ask fundamental questions with each new initiative. Thus "Just do it. What's keeping you?", challenging the normal with each new project. In his classic work "The Mythical Man Month" Fred Brooks describes the danger of the "second system", which comes from repeating the same patterns in a successful first project or trying to compensate for the limits of the first system. The former blinds you to the mistaskes you made since the project was sucessful, and the latter – to the priorities of the second endeavor.
The "Just do it" approach lines up your priorities correctly, starting with the final product in mind and working back from it to the resources and processes you need to invoke.
Are you tasked with building a telehealth app? Just do it! In the simplest form all you need to build is a streaming service. There's enough options in that field that will help you integrate or relatively quickly spin up a streaming server. From there we need to think about setting appointments, also a very solvable problem. Then privacy, then doctor and patient management, then integration with EHRs, accounting systems, etc, etc. The scope of work quickly grows, but if you start with a very basic understanding of what's required, you can grow other systems around it. And the advantage is: you are using resources optimally, which enhances your chances for success.
