Summits Are a Useful Forcing Function

I think in general, and it's quite a general statement, but it's better to limit software efforts by time than by scope. This is an empirical observation I have with many years of engineering. With a summit, it feels really bad to carry through a line of work over the boundary of the summit unless it's a very deliberate long term project. So you always find yourself wanting to wrap before a summit. And I think generally that's healthy and useful.