How to eat an elephant? Large project sputter/stutter and chug along. Mostly along the way they lose steam or interest. In my experience at the end stakeholder ae more relieved than joyful. "Customer Delight" by architects goes out of the window. Is it even possible?     

Kumaran: Apply the happy bullocks to reduce the challenge. Avinash connects this to marathon running.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtaHT2U0IM    

Jiffin: Involve more experts and more detailed research  about the problem and risk management with other stakeholders https://youtu.be/kdtaHT2U0IM?t=370   

Avinash: Correlates it to running and tackling a very old Content management system that needs to be migrated.https://youtu.be/kdtaHT2U0IM?t=570   

Deepak: How to handle it in a system which is risk-averse or failure averse, this typical of legacy systems. How resilient is the system? Looking at quality Deepak talks of different types of elephants as well.https://youtu.be/kdtaHT2U0IM?t=962   

Venkat: Prepare the stakeholders mentally to handle the elephant. Prempt the issue and handle the repercussion https://youtu.be/kdtaHT2U0IM?t=2630