How do you tackle a big household project?

Let’s say you have to empty a very full room for new carpeting, or pack up to move, or clear out a flooded basement. Something on that scale.

Do you make a detailed plan and follow it? just dive in and thrash through it? nibble away at it over time? enlist a legion of helpers? something else?

Is your best strategy also the one you actually practice, or do you intend one thing and do another?

If your approach doesn’t work well for you, what are you going to try next time?