PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Medium
You are leading an agile project to develop a web portal. During the sixth sprint, a major competitor launches a similar product with features that make your planned functionality less competitive. The Product Owner wants to immediately pivot and add new differentiating features, which would require abandoning nearly half of the current sprint backlog. The development team is concerned about the disruption and waste of partially completed work. There are four days remaining in the ten-day sprint. What is the best course of action?
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