Your organization is implementing a new customer portal using a hybrid approach. The infrastructure and security components follow a predictive lifecycle with a fixed release date in six months, while the user interface features are being developed iteratively in two-week sprints. The product owner wants to release features to users as soon as they're ready, but the infrastructure team insists nothing can go live until the full security framework is complete. Stakeholders are pressuring you to show early value. How should you proceed?

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The correct answer is A. Option A is correct because it addresses the constraint while enabling early value delivery through incremental deployment (ECO Process Task 2.7). A minimum viable security framework can provide adequate protection for initial limited releases while full security features are completed, which is a common practice in hybrid projects. Option C is the main distractor but wrong because staging previews don't deliver actual business value to end users—stakeholders need real functionality in production. Option B ignores stakeholder needs and wastes the opportunity to gain early feedback. Option D is impractical since infrastructure and security work typically has dependencies that make predictive planning more appropriate.

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