Well, the Agile approach is to break them down into smaller things that can be accomplished in under 1,000 hours. "There's nothing that can be accomplished in

Well, the Agile approach is to break them down into smaller things that can be accomplished in under 1,000 hours. "There's nothing that can be accomplished in a single chunk taking more than a 1,000 hours that will produce a system with a manageable and maintainable level of complexity unless it is broken into smaller, well-defined and loosely-coupled components," perhaps.