PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Medium
During a sprint, your development team discovers that a technical dependency on a third-party API integration is more complex than originally estimated. The story was estimated at 5 points but will actually require approximately 13 points of effort. This story is critical to the sprint goal, but completing it will require the team to remove other committed work from the sprint. The daily stand-up is happening in one hour. What should the team do?
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