You are managing a hybrid transformation project where half the team is experienced with agile practices and half has only worked in traditional environments. During the first iteration planning session, the traditional team members remain silent while the agile-experienced members dominate the discussion. Later, a traditionally-trained business analyst tells you privately that they feel their expertise in requirements documentation is no longer valued. The project requires both detailed requirements for regulatory purposes and iterative development. How should you address this situation?

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The correct answer is A. Facilitating a workshop to create a hybrid working agreement (option A) directly addresses the inclusion issue while recognizing that both skill sets are valuable and necessary for this project's success. This approach builds psychological safety, creates shared ownership of the process, and demonstrates that hybrid means integrating the best of both approaches rather than favoring one. Option B is a common mistake because it positions agile as superior and traditional practices as outdated, which reinforces rather than resolves the exclusion problem and devalues legitimate expertise. Options C and D also fail to create true integration—C creates silos that prevent collaboration and learning, while D assumes one approach is universally better and ignores the project's legitimate need for documentation rigor.

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