PMP Practice Question: Business Environment — Agile, Medium
A product development team is using Scrum to build an e-commerce platform. After six sprints, the organization's executive leadership announces a strategic pivot toward sustainability and carbon neutrality, requiring all products to demonstrate measurable environmental impact reduction. The product owner realizes that the current architecture and cloud infrastructure choices do not align with these new organizational values. The team has invested significantly in the current technical direction and changing course would require refactoring. What is the most appropriate action for the product owner?
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