PMP Practice Question: Business Environment — Agile, Hard
Your agile team is developing a SaaS platform in an organization that is simultaneously acquiring a competitor company. The acquisition will close in two months, and the acquired company has a similar product with an overlapping customer base. Your executive leadership is debating whether to continue both products, merge them, or sunset one. Your current three-month roadmap includes significant investments in features that may become redundant. Team morale is declining due to uncertainty, and velocity has dropped 30% over the past two sprints. The Product Owner is frustrated and wants definitive direction. What is the most appropriate action to maintain team effectiveness during this period of organizational change?
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