The "break it down" approach is good,but sometimes it does take too long. What I have seen work is to just start implementing a partial solution that struggles

The "break it down" approach is good,but sometimes it does take too long. What I have seen work is to just start implementing a partial solution that struggles with some of the corner cases. Your team is no longer stalled waiting for you to finish, and can jump ahead to other problems while you stick with continuing to look for the full solution. Plus, seeing a suboptimal solution in action can help make the best solution pop out andlook obvious.