PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Hard
Your agile team has been delivering increments successfully for six sprints, maintaining a stable velocity of 45 story points. In sprint 7, the Product Owner requests adding a critical regulatory compliance feature that requires immediate attention due to an unexpected government mandate. The feature is estimated at 55 story points and cannot be decomposed further without losing its compliance value. The Product Owner wants to add it to the current sprint backlog which already contains 45 story points of committed work. Team members express concern about overcommitment, but the Product Owner insists this is a business-critical emergency. What should the Scrum Master do first?
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