A city permitting portal Product Owner is pressed to promise a go-live date six months out, but discovery of permit types, integrations, and citizen journeys is still incomplete. What should the Product Owner do?
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Short Explanation
A date pulled out of thin air is like promising the parade route before anyone has walked the streets. Until the team has seen real permit types and integrations, a single Friday is theater, not a forecast. Give a range, inspect it as evidence shows up, and skip the fake certainty.
Full Explanation
When discovery is incomplete, empiricism is the Product Owner's forecasting tool: inspect actual outcomes and adapt the outlook rather than locking a precision date. A confidence range makes remaining uncertainty transparent to city stakeholders without pretending the Product Backlog is fully known. Freezing incomplete work, converting discovery into a Gantt, or spreading Developers thinner does not create knowledge; it hides the gap. Advanced Product Ownership treats the six-month ask as a request for an inspectable forecast, not a contract.