Your agile team has completed three sprints on a mobile application project. During the sprint retrospective, several team members mention that the Definition of Done (DoD) has become unclear, as some user stories are being marked complete without proper testing documentation. The product owner suggests loosening the DoD to improve velocity metrics. Team members are divided on this approach. What should you do as the Scrum Master?

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The correct answer is B. The Scrum Master should facilitate a collaborative team discussion to clarify and strengthen the DoD, ensuring shared understanding and commitment to quality standards (ECO Process Task 3.3 - Manage quality). The DoD is a team agreement that ensures transparency and quality, and weakening it to inflate velocity metrics would compromise product integrity and technical debt. Option A is the main distractor because while stakeholder communication is important, artificially inflating velocity by lowering quality standards creates future problems and misleads stakeholders about true progress. Options C and D violate the principle of team empowerment and self-organization fundamental to agile approaches.

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