PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Hard
Your organization is scaling agile across five teams working on a complex financial services platform. Each team has been working independently using Scrum for eight months with their own Product Owner from different business units (Trading, Risk Management, Compliance, Customer Service, and Reporting). The architecture team reports increasing integration problems, with teams making conflicting technical decisions that require expensive rework. Dependencies between teams are causing 20% of stories to be blocked each sprint. The CTO wants better alignment but doesn't want to lose team autonomy or slow down delivery. Teams currently sync through a weekly Scrum of Scrums meeting. What structural change would most effectively address the integration and dependency issues?
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