My friend, software engineer at a VFX company, said his sprint meetings were only for planning ahead and no crunches to snap deadlines to sprint "ends". Thats s

My friend, software engineer at a VFX company, said his sprint meetings were only for planning ahead and no crunches to snap deadlines to sprint "ends". Thats silly, stuff always exceeds sprint ends. My team insists on sprint deadlines, but no sprint meetings . That's cargo culting.