PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Medium
Your agile team has completed their fourth sprint on a financial software project. During the retrospective, several team members mention that the daily standups have become status report meetings where everyone just talks to you, the project manager, rather than coordinating with each other. Team members seem disengaged, and blockers mentioned during standup often don't get resolved until the next day. The team says they don't find the standups valuable anymore. How should you address this situation?
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