PMP Practice Question: Business Environment — Predictive, Hard
You are managing a predictive regulatory compliance project for a pharmaceutical client. During the execution phase, a competitor announces they have received expedited approval for a similar drug using a new regulatory pathway that was not available when your project was initiated. Your client's legal team believes pursuing this new pathway could reduce the compliance timeline from 18 months to 10 months, but it would require re-validating 30% of completed work and restructuring your project baseline. The project steering committee is meeting in two days to decide whether to continue with the original approach or adopt the new pathway. Your analysis shows the new pathway has a 70% probability of success but lacks established precedent. What is your best course of action?
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