A functional manager worries the project's quality practices exceed the department's capabilities and requests two full-day workshops next week to review all quality activities. What should the project manager do?

The correct answer is to explain that the team is fully dedicated to current sprint activities and negotiate a mutually agreeable time. In an agile environment, the team's focus is on completing the current sprint's commitments. Adding two full-day workshops immediately would disrupt the sprint and likely prevent the team from meeting its goals. The project manager should acknowledge the functional manager's concern and proactively work to find a time that accommodates both the project's needs and the functional manager's request without jeopardizing the current iteration. Stating it's outside project scope or not identified during planning is dismissive and uncollaborative. Preparing a project decision request to add it to the current iteration scope is inappropriate for an agile context, as changes to the sprint scope are typically handled differently and with product owner involvement. Adding to the backlog for the product owner to prioritize is a possibility for future work, but the immediate concern of the functional manager suggests a more direct negotiation is needed first.