A company starts implementing Scrum. About halfway through the first sprint, communication issues develop. Some project team members are not in sync with other team members. What is the cause for this communication gap?

While an updated project status dashboard can provide useful insights into project progress, it does not directly facilitate communication among team members. If team members are not attending daily meetings to discuss their work, merely updating the dashboard will not resolve any communication issues that arise from lack of interaction.

Similar to the status dashboard, an unupdated sprint board might hinder visibility into task progress but does not inherently cause communication gaps. Team members need to actively communicate about their tasks and obstacles, which is something that an updated board alone cannot achieve.

While a communications management plan is important for establishing protocols for communication, the immediate cause of the communication gap in this scenario is the failure to hold daily coordination meetings. Even without a formal plan, effective communication can still occur through regular check-ins, which are absent in this case.