Which one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?

Suppose you are a Scrum Master on a project to design a metro rail system for a city. It has been brought to your attention that the Product Owner wants to change the Acceptance Criteria for one of the User Stories committed to for the current Sprint because the customer has changed a critical business requirement.

Which one of the following statements presents the best solution for such a situation?
A . You should direct the Scrum team to stop working on the current Sprint Backlog, and to start working on the latest business requirements.
B. The Product Owner should add this requirement to the overall Prioritized Product Backlog, and the team would work on it in a future Sprint.
C. You should tell the Product Owner to inform the stakeholders that this business requirement cannot be worked on as the Scrum Team has no bandwidth in the current Sprint.
D. The Product Owner should cancel the current Sprint, and should start planning a new Sprint for the team to be able to develop the deliverable as per the latest business requirement.

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Answer: B