A company has dictated project scope changes but has stated that the original budget still applies. Which of the following will MOST likely be impacted by the changes?

Quality may eventually degrade if the team is overextended, but the most immediate and measurable impact of increased scope with a fixed budget is on the project timeline, not quality.

Regulations are external legal or compliance requirements imposed by governing bodies and are not determined by internal project scope or budget decisions.

The triple constraint (scope, cost, time) dictates that changes to one constraint affect the others; with scope expanded and cost fixed, no additional staff or resources can be procured, forcing the existing team to do more work within the same window and directly extending the schedule.

The project team's composition is not a direct output of a scope-budget conflict; the team is expected to absorb the additional work, which impacts the schedule before any team restructuring would occur.