PMP Practice Question: Business Environment — Hybrid, Medium
A project manager is leading a hybrid infrastructure modernization project for a multinational corporation. The network infrastructure replacement follows a predictive waterfall methodology with detailed planning across 15 countries, while cloud services implementation uses an agile approach with two-week sprints. During sprint planning, the development team identifies that they need network upgrades in three locations to proceed with planned cloud deployments, but those network upgrades are scheduled for completion in the waterfall plan three months from now. The development team suggests resequencing the network rollout to unblock their work. What should the project manager do?
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