Moving on with the analysis, Agile with an uppercase A is an anti-pattern to how humans live and work in the first place. The idea of sprinting makes sense when

Moving on with the analysis, Agile with an uppercase A is an anti-pattern to how humans live and work in the first place. The idea of sprinting makes sense when you're within reach of the goal 1) Agile != Scrum. Sprints are just a Scrum term not a general term in the agile community. 2) Many Scrum folk I talk to think sprint was a poor word choice (it wasn't intended to be taken as "as fast as possible" but "something with a defined end" - many short sprints rather than one long marathon). Many use the more neutral "iteration". 3) Not going as fast as possible and having a long term sustainable pace is what agile projects are all about. That's why you saw practices like "Sustainable Pace" in XP http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/overtime.html http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/overtime.html