reason #7963794 i shouldn't ever become a manager: we're having a sprint planning meeting & the PM + BAs are struggling to figure out which parts of a set of mutually entangled tickets to move to which upcoming sprint, and my answer was 'who cares? just mark tickets as done when you finish them, no matter what sprint they are in'. direct experience has proven to me that sprint planning is always so wrong as to be useless, and the approximately six hours per week we spend arguing about it seems totally wasted; were it up to me, i would simply lie to middle management & tell them that whatever we happened to finish was exactly what we planned to work on, because developers are in a better position to know what features should be implemented when than product & project management -- information that only comes to light once you've got your head totally immersed in the relevant corner of the code.