PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Hard
You are leading an agile transformation for a product team that has just completed their third sprint. The Definition of Done (DoD) requires automated testing, code review, and deployment to staging environment. During sprint planning, the team consistently over-commits because they estimate story points based on development effort only, not accounting for DoD activities. As a result, several stories are left incomplete each sprint, with testing and code review pushed to the next sprint. Technical debt is accumulating, and the product owner is frustrated with low velocity. What is the BEST approach to address this situation?
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