Your agile team includes a highly skilled developer who consistently completes stories faster than estimated. However, other team members have privately expressed concern that this developer rarely participates in pair programming sessions, doesn't share knowledge during daily standups, and works in isolation. While individual productivity is high, the team's overall capability isn't improving, and there's a growing knowledge silo. How should you address this situation?

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The correct answer is B. Option B is correct because it addresses the situation with empathy first by understanding the developer's perspective, then guides the team toward collaborative practices that build collective capability (ECO People Task 1.1: Manage conflict). This approach values both the individual and the team while promoting agile values of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Option A is wrong because it reinforces individual performance over team collaboration, which undermines agile principles and could worsen the silo problem. Option C would deepen the knowledge silo and create team dependency. Option D could feel punitive and damage psychological safety rather than building a collaborative culture.

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