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Project Management Professional Practice Question

As you manage a 10-month agile software development project for a healthcare client, your team is halfway through the current Program Increment. Mid-sprint, the legal department informs you that a new federal regulation (effective before go-live) mandates encryption of all personally identifiable information at rest and in transit. Implementing the encryption libraries and performing the required penetration testing will add roughly four weeks of effort and $75 000 in licensing and testing fees. The sponsor insists that regulatory compliance is mandatory, but also warns that the budget contingency is nearly depleted. What should you do first to manage the potential impact on both the schedule and budget?

  • Re-baseline the project schedule by adding four weeks to the planned release date.

  • Request an immediate budget increase from the sponsor to cover the $75 000 cost overrun.

  • Perform a cost-benefit and impact analysis of the regulatory change, then submit a change request through Integrated Change Control.

  • De-scope lower-priority features so the encryption work can be delivered within the current cost and time constraints.

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