A project manager has been running an agile project for 6 months and has been reporting that the project is on track every week. However, on the last week before releasing the final product, the team found a technical impediment that put the project delivery in jeopardy overnight. What should the project manager have done to prevent this situation?

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D. Developed a risk response plan that would have provided options and strategies regarding project Developing a comprehensive risk response plan identifies potential risks, such as technical impediments, and outlines proactive strategies and options for how to address them if they occur, preventing last-minute delivery issues. This allows for planned actions to mitigate or resolve the impediment instead of scrambling at the last minute.

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A. Considered historical data from previous projects with similar impediments to help identify the While historical data is useful for identifying risks, simply considering it doesn't automatically prevent a specific future impediment without a concrete plan of action.

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B. Sought and implemented alternative ways to track progress and impediments to identify potential Implementing alternative tracking methods might help identify impediments earlier, but it doesn't inherently provide a solution or strategy for addressing them once identified.

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C. Provided technical training to the team in advance to ensure the team had high-level technical Providing technical training improves team capability but doesn't guarantee the prevention of all possible technical impediments, especially those that might be external or complex.

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