What advice or help, in line with Scrum, can you offer?

It has been a year, a new product is under development and you joined the Scrum Team as their Scrum Master. The product is working software that has been delivered each sprint, but not released to the market. Recent pressure from within the organization and Stakeholders is forcing a release two months from now. The Product Owner feels this is premature as the work to be done before she has confidence in a release, is forecast to take at least six months. She appears quite distressed.

What advice or help, in line with Scrum, can you offer? (choose the 2 best answers)
A . Advise the Product Owner to create more teams to work on the product. The new teams can lean on expertise from the original team.
B. Advise the Product Owner that the whole of the organization must respect her decisions. Stick to the current product vision and six-month timeline.
C. Advise the Product Owner to sit with the team and rescope the work planned.
What can be delivered in two months that will meet customer needs? What would we need if we had to release this sprint?
D. Advise the Product Owner to work with the Stakeholders.

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Answer: C,D

Explanation:

Adding more teams will likely slow the effort down due to the learning curve.

Sticking to your own plan while ignoring external realities and not validating with real users, shows we are not inspecting and adapting.

And keeping in mind that Sprints are the heartbeat of Scrum, where ideas are turned into value, and value can only be validated by those that use the product.