[Planning] How do you break a large project into manageable phases or milestones?

Instruction: Explain how you turn a large or complex project into phases or milestones that the team can actually work against.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can structure big work into execution-friendly chunks.

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I usually start by identifying the natural structure of the work. That might be major deliverables, lifecycle stages, capability groupings, dependency gates, or readiness points. I want the phases to reflect how the project actually needs to move, not just how good it looks in a slide.

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