There are a couple idioms in English that get more or less at the heart of what you are trying to say. However, I can't think of any one idiom that is perfect.
Basically, what this means is that you are putting things in the wrong order. This could be due to confusion about cause and effect, but it also covers situations where you are focusing on the details in the wrong order.
This idiom does not speak to the level of detail. For example, designing a moon rover before designing a rocket would be putting the cart before the horse.
arranging deck chairs on the Titanic
This means that you are focused on unimportant details for something that's going away. For example, re-writing the source code for a program that deprecated.
This has a negative connotation, and implies a waste of time and effort. However, sometimes, I've heard this idiom stretched to mean focusing on small details of a process that may or may not come to fruition.
don't count your chickens before they've hatched
This idiom addresses the case when you start working on X, which is dependent on Y, without knowing that Y is actually going to happen.
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