> As someone said "you can't successfully run marathon by running a series of sprints". I think that's a lazy argument. If you don't like the word 'sprint' us

> As someone said "you can't successfully run marathon by running a series of sprints". I think that's a lazy argument. If you don't like the word 'sprint' use another term to denote a period of time. > natural cycle of plan, design, implement of the stuff slated into the next release (ie. the dirty word of "waterfall"). Actually, if it's in small units of time/work, then it's pretty close to agile. The problem with waterfall is the big upfront planning where you try to estimate how long it'll take to implement things months ahead of time.