PMP Practice: Assess Project Needs, Complexity, and Magnitude

Malakai Fotu-Tonga is leading an agile project at Entropy Spark Corp to develop a mobile health app for remote patient monitoring. During sprint planning for Sprint 3, the product owner wants to prioritize five new features requested by a major healthcare partner who has committed to a pilot program in six weeks. The development team pushes back, stating they can only commit to three features while maintaining their current velocity and code quality standards. The team's technical lead warns that rushing more features will create technical debt that could delay future sprints by 30%. The product owner argues that securing this partnership is critical for the company's Series B funding round and missing the pilot deadline could cost the organization its primary investor. What approach would be MOST effective for Malakai to facilitate resolution?