Your hybrid project uses iterative development for software components and predictive planning for regulatory submissions. During a retrospective, the development team reports that 40% of their completed work from the last two sprints cannot be deployed because regulatory documentation hasn't kept pace with development velocity. The regulatory specialist, who works part-time on your project, states she can only document work after it's fully tested and stabilized. This creates a growing backlog of undocumented, undeployable features. What should you address first?

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The correct answer is A. Option A is correct because it addresses the root cause by integrating regulatory documentation into the workflow rather than treating it as a separate phase (ECO Process Task 2.5). The Definition of Done should reflect all work needed to deliver value, and in regulated environments, documentation is not optional. This may slow initial velocity but prevents accumulating technical and documentation debt. Option C is the main distractor but wrong because batching creates the same problem at a different scale—it treats documentation as a phase rather than an integrated activity, contradicting hybrid integration principles. Option B may help but doesn't solve the workflow problem. Option D ignores that regulatory documentation typically requires specific expertise and accountability.

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