A project manager is leading a hybrid project. The hardware team uses a predictive waterfall schedule, while the software team uses Scrum. The hardware team needs the software specifications frozen by Month 2, but the software team says they won't know the full specs until Month 4. How should the project manager resolve this integration issue?

Answer options:

Force the software team to define all specs by Month 2.

Tell the hardware team to wait until Month 4 to start.

Facilitate a workshop to identify the 'minimum viable specs' needed for hardware to proceed, and decouple the rest.

Switch the entire project to Waterfall.

How to approach this question

Hybrid integration requires finding the 'seams' between methodologies.

Full Answer

C.Facilitate a workshop to identify the 'minimum viable specs' needed for hardware to proceed, and decouple the rest.✓ Correct

Task 9 (Integrate planning). In hybrid, the PM acts as the bridge. Identifying dependencies and decoupling non-dependent parts allows both methodologies to coexist.

Common mistakes

Forcing one methodology on the other team.

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