[vincentkriek]

This is turning into a discussion about naming, which is important. I think the sprints are maybe wrongly worded, but I struggle to find a better term.

User stories are not actual stories with a plots as well, but the idea makes sense

[lelanthran]

Maybe, but the people you are telling the word "sprint" to do not interpret it as "iteration" or "phase", they are interpreting it as "unsustainable burst of speed".

When you tell people the word "story", they know exactly what you mean, because the word story is used all the time for things without plots ("So, what's your story?" comes to mind).

We frequently use the word story to mean "your side of things"; in civil litigation for example.

[pas]

we call them cycles (weekly cycles, or bi-weekly cycles, mostly they are product planning cycles, and also usually the basic time interval after the previous planing assumptions should be checked/revised, etc.)

// linear also calls them cycles, https://linear.app/features/plan#cycles , but linear is a bit meh