PMP Practice Question: Process — Agile, Hard
During a sprint retrospective, your team identifies that they spent 40% of the sprint fixing production defects that escaped from previous sprints rather than working on new features. The team proposes adding a 'quality sprint' every third sprint where they do no new development and only focus on fixing technical debt and improving test coverage. The product owner objects, stating this will reduce feature delivery by 33% and jeopardize committed roadmap dates. The team argues they cannot maintain quality with the current pace. How should you facilitate resolution of this conflict?
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