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For this scenario, Bobbi is an experienced project manager, who is comfortable working as a project manager for projects executed using the waterfall methodology as well as a scrum master for projects executed using the agile methodology.

Bobbi’s project team has finished gathering the requirements and developing the solution design. Her team is broken into two main groups:

• Group 1. Consists of the project manager, business analysts, and management and they are located in the United States.
• Group 2. Consists of the development, testing and QA teams and they are located in India.

The WBS was developed based on the estimates from the teams in India. The development team agree to provide daily updates to Bobbi about the progress against the WBS to make sure that the project’s milestones would be met.

However, by the time the development team got close to their first milestone, it became obvious that they were behind, even though their daily updates indicated that they were on track. In addition, the team adopted a different design approach than the one agreed upon at the beginning of the project.

The lack of meaningful updates from the development team along with a different design track has jeopardized the whole project by rendering the entire plan obsolete. Bobbi and her team are now at risk of not delivering the project.

1. What should Bobbi do? Your answer should include a minimum of 5 distinct steps or actions that will allow Bobbi and her team to move the project forward.
2. What impact will these recommendations likely have on the project’s cost, schedule and performance? Explain.