Management and marketing needs to know when the next release will be and what will be in it. Cutting things up into two week segments, and religiously opposing

Management and marketing needs to know when the next release will be and what will be in it. Cutting things up into two week segments, and religiously opposing any attempt to plan together as group or come with rough schedules undermines engineerings ability to interact meaningfully with those people. Sales people, investors, and customers really don't care about how good you are about meeting your scrum targets or how many fictional story points you're able to get through.