You have been assigned the organization's first agile project and the team has no agile experience. A high-level scope exists but the team is unclear what to work on first. What should the project manager do?

The correct answer is to work with the product owner to define the initial product backlog. In an agile environment, the product owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and managing the product backlog. Since the team is new to agile and unclear about what to work on, collaborating with the product owner to create an initial product backlog provides a prioritized list of features, epics, and user stories, giving the team a clear direction for their first iterations. Hiring an external consultancy is an unnecessary and costly step at this stage. Holding the project until a detailed scope document is prepared contradicts agile principles of iterative development and embracing change. Allocating the first three sprints solely for defining the sprint backlog is inefficient; the sprint backlog is derived from the product backlog, which needs to be established first.