A company is doing a digital transformation with a hard deadline. Marketing wants to combine this with a new product, and the newly assigned project manager doesn't know all dependencies. Using a hybrid approach, what should the project manager do to ensure dependencies are addressed?

In a hybrid environment with multiple teams and unknown dependencies, a Scrum of Scrums is an effective communication mechanism. It allows representatives from each team to regularly meet, discuss progress, identify impediments, and surface cross-team dependencies, ensuring alignment and coordinated effort. A project newsletter is a passive communication tool and won't proactively address unknown dependencies. Aligning schedules is important but doesn't facilitate the discovery and management of unknown dependencies between different projects. Merging all small projects into one large project could create an unmanageable scope and complexity, especially with a hard deadline and unknown dependencies, rather than simplifying dependency management.