Sprints are for middle management to keep projects from getting out of hand, they aren't for programmers or programmer freedom. When you understand this simple

Sprints are for middle management to keep projects from getting out of hand, they aren't for programmers or programmer freedom. When you understand this simple principal it all makes a lot more sense. It's really no deeper than that. All the stuff grafted on top of that as "support for" is pretty much all feel good fluff and unproven social theory.