PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Hard
Your organization is transitioning from predictive to agile approaches. You're leading a complex product development effort with three agile teams working on interdependent components. After four sprints, you notice that each team is completing their individual sprint goals, but integration issues are causing significant delays. The teams have different sprint cadences (1-week, 2-week, and 3-week sprints) based on their component complexity. Dependencies are managed through a shared backlog, but teams frequently discover blocking issues during integration. The overall product delivery is falling behind schedule. What is the BEST approach to address this systemic integration problem?
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