PMP Practice: Use Methods to Support Compliance

Kaito Fujimoto is managing a two-year digital health platform project for Sahara Cloud Dynamics that will process patient medical records across three countries. The company is using a hybrid approach: predictive planning for regulatory compliance components and agile delivery for the user interface and feature rollouts. During sprint planning for the third increment, the development team proposes pivoting the data encryption architecture to use a newer, more efficient algorithm they discovered. The security lead confirms the new algorithm is technically superior and would improve performance by 40%. However, the original encryption method was explicitly documented in the compliance plan submitted to regulators six months ago as part of the mandatory pre-approval process. The regulatory agencies have not yet completed their formal review. What should Kaito do?