You are managing a hybrid project with both agile development teams and traditional infrastructure teams. During a retrospective, several agile team members express frustration that infrastructure dependencies are blocking their sprints. The infrastructure lead explains that their waterfall approach requires detailed specifications two months in advance, which conflicts with the agile team's adaptive planning. Team morale is declining, and velocity has dropped 30% over the last three sprints. What is the BEST approach to address this systemic conflict?

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The correct answer is A. Option A is correct because it addresses the root cause by creating a collaborative solution that respects both approaches' legitimate constraints. In hybrid environments, the project manager must bridge different methodologies rather than force conformity (ECO People Task 1.3). This working group can establish interface points and planning cadences that honor infrastructure lead times while preserving agile responsiveness. Option B is the primary distractor but wrong because forcing a methodology change ignores the infrastructure team's valid technical and organizational constraints, likely creating new problems. Option C sacrifices agility unnecessarily, and Option D avoids solving an integrable problem.

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