A company has moved from predictive to a hybrid delivery approach. The distributed project team has varying levels of agile knowledge. The project manager believes this change could affect timely delivery. What should the project manager do?

The correct answer is to plan for training on agile tools and techniques. This directly addresses the problem of varying agile knowledge within a distributed team transitioning to a hybrid approach. Training ensures consistent application of the methodology, reducing potential delays and improving overall project success. Using predictive methods for some team members would create an inconsistent approach, undermining the hybrid strategy and potentially causing integration issues. Requesting to execute the project as purely predictive ignores the company's strategic move to hybrid and doesn't address the team's current skill gaps. Crashing is a schedule compression technique used to shorten the critical path, not a solution for addressing team knowledge gaps or ensuring consistent methodological application in a hybrid environment.