If the word (sprint) is a problem, then change it. Call it "iteration", "segment", whatever.
Taking a 500km bicycle ride from one place to another, you surely will plan the thing as segments. I would plan days and see where I can reach milestones: a city, a place to stay, a sight-seeing place, a mountain top, a ferry, a destination...
A software development project of several months is not a Marathon.
I've run a Marathon in a few hours. But even in a Marathon I look at my starting preparations of the day, my 5km times, reach the half marathon, plan for the drinking stops, plan when my primary energy source is depleted, how to get over it, ... Few people run a Marathon from front to end with the same speed&energy, without a plan how to mentally split up the race.
I agree that a word is just a word and it can easily be changed. That's why I called it a minor issue. I think my issue is more that if we have a framework where part of the framework is named after something that is not unsustainable long term, it makes me question the goals and intent of the people who created it. I have to ask myself, "are we using this in an unintended way".
It's like if you came to my house and asked for a towel and I went, "oh yeah, use my butt towel". Just because it's called a butt towel doesn't mean it's actually got anything to do with a butt, but you're probably going to be a bit uncomfortable until you understand why I'm calling it that.
Taking a 500km bicycle ride from one place to another, you surely will plan the thing as segments. I would plan days and see where I can reach milestones: a city, a place to stay, a sight-seeing place, a mountain top, a ferry, a destination...
A software development project of several months is not a Marathon.
I've run a Marathon in a few hours. But even in a Marathon I look at my starting preparations of the day, my 5km times, reach the half marathon, plan for the drinking stops, plan when my primary energy source is depleted, how to get over it, ... Few people run a Marathon from front to end with the same speed&energy, without a plan how to mentally split up the race.