PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Hard
You are leading an agile transformation for a distributed team building a customer portal. After three sprints, you notice that the team's velocity has dropped from 45 to 28 story points, and sprint goals are consistently not met. During daily standups, team members report blockers related to waiting for architectural decisions from a centralized enterprise architecture group that reviews designs every two weeks. The product owner is frustrated with slow progress and wants to add more developers. Team morale is declining as members feel they cannot control their outcomes. What is the most effective approach to restore the team's ability to deliver value?
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