A company has decided to use an agile delivery method for launching a new product to improve the customer checkout experience. How should the project manager ensure the experienced predictive delivery teams are capable of adopting the agile model?

Agile adoption succeeds when everyone affected understands and supports the change. PMI’s Agile Practice Guide states that introducing agile “requires broad‐based training and coaching so that teams, managers, and stakeholders share a common understanding of agile values, principles, and practices.” Organising workshops for all stakeholders therefore gives predictive-oriented teams the knowledge, vocabulary and mindset they need before roles or artefacts are assigned, ensuring a consistent, organisation-wide shift to agile delivery.

A. Limits training to predefined roles; fails to create the whole-system understanding that PMI prescribes for successful adoption.
C. Focusing only on senior leaders ignores the delivery teams that must execute the work.
D. Mixing agile and predictive on the same product fractures process consistency and inhibits learning for the formerly predictive team.

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