Software sprints have become an article of faith in the technology world. In competitive industries that are driven by software, companies feel immense pressure to ship new products and features before their competitors. Aggressive two-week deadlines are common, with a small army of developers dividing up work production-line style and racing toward an immutable launch date. But what if this isn’t the best way to build products? I’ve run a software company for the past 12 years and before that I...