The whole terminology shows an attitude hostile to employees, just squeezing out the last drop of juiceout of them. Nobody can sprint all the time, sometimes yo

The whole terminology shows an attitude hostile to employees, just squeezing out the last drop of juiceout of them. Nobody can sprint all the time, sometimes you just need to walk slower. I think I have seen 3 types of people * some get cynical and just don't care about the sprint goals. What doesn't get done this sprint gets carried over to the next one * others really want to get ticked off everything. So they compromise on quality, pile up technical debt. Eventually they hope the project will be closed or they move one. * 3rd category burns out themselves. This can end badly, I have seen suicide attempts, people disappearing from their family and of course sick leaves and quitting their jobs. I don't think planning every 2 weeks is a bad thing. It just makes sure that plans get reviewed, updated, and refocussed frquently enough. Whether the goals have been reached or not I don't care that much. Retros are often a waste of time. Yeah, we underestimated something. We forgot a task. Unforeseen customer support suddenly had higher priority. There is always some reason why things went differently, despite all intentions to do it better every time. Edit: No I don't think all sprints go just completely wrong. But there is always something that didn't work out. Maybe 30% on average? With my current team we try to mostly look at the 70% that we got done reasonably well and then we move on carrying over what still needs to be done.