It&#x27;s not that easy.<p>If a team member gets sick for a week, it can already be impossible to meet the goals of a two-week sprint.<p>It happens (not so often, but it does) that we underestimate the complexity of a task by a factor 5 or so; that alone can also make it impossible to meet the goals.<p>There are just too many things that lead to building pressure when there&#x27;s no actual need for pressure from a business point of view.