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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The correct answer is B. Immediately informing the product owner and collaborating to re-plan enables the team to make transparent, informed decisions about trade-offs while the sprint is still recoverable. Agile values responding to change and emphasizes collaboration between the development team and product owner. This allows re-prioritization to protect the sprint goal while managing scope realistically. Option A is incorrect because ignoring capacity constraints leads to failed commitments and undermines empiricism—the team should adapt when new information emerges. Option C delays necessary decision-making until it's too late to adjust, potentially resulting in an unsuccessful sprint. Option D updates the estimate but doesn't address the immediate capacity problem or enable scope negotiation needed to achieve the sprint goal.

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