Work ‘forwards’ and ‘backwards’ to identify steps.

Artic­u­late log­ic by start­ing with strate­gies and work­ing through if/then link­ages to desired out­comes, and work­ing back­wards from out­comes to a strat­e­gy, ask­ing what oth­er results (i.e., inter­me­di­ate results) must be achieved along the way in order reach a par­tic­u­lar outcome.