[Planning] How do you plan when leadership wants a date before the team is ready?

Instruction: Answer this as a PM who has to respond when leadership wants a target date before enough discovery or planning has happened.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can communicate early planning honestly under executive pressure.

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I try to give leadership something useful without acting like we have more certainty than we really do. Usually that means being clear about what kind of date I'm giving. Is it an early planning target, a confidence range, or a date that depends on a few major assumptions still being validated?

Then I explain what that...

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