PMP Practice Question: People — Hybrid, Medium
You're managing a hybrid project where a senior developer who has been with the company for 10 years is struggling to adapt to the agile portions of the project. She excels at the technical architecture work (predictive phase) but becomes defensive during sprint retrospectives and rarely updates the task board. Other team members have privately mentioned this is impacting transparency. She has stated she finds the ceremonies 'unnecessary bureaucracy' and prefers to 'just focus on coding.' What is the most effective approach to help this team member succeed?
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