[Planning] How do you assess an externally chosen target date against delivery evidence?

Instruction: Explain how you distinguish the business reason and flexibility of a target date from the evidence that the planned scope can be delivered by it.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can evaluate schedule feasibility without assuming an externally chosen date is arbitrary or treating its importance as proof that it is achievable.

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I would separate two questions: why the date matters, and whether the current scope can credibly meet it. A market event, contractual commitment or internal priority can make a date important or difficult to change. That does not make it achievable, but it also does not mean the date is merely political or arbitrary.

I would ask the relevant owner what is fixed,...

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