[taneq]

Depends what you're building. Which leads us to the worst (meta-)aspect of Agile/Scrum these days, which is that it's the industry's current favourite hammer and so it gets used to bash every single problem. Now, hammers are quite versatile, but you have to know when to bash, when to use the claw, when to lever or just nudge things instead of swinging.

The moment you start getting dogmatic about your process is the moment your decisions start being driven by something other than your actual needs at hand. And that's the moment when you start to produce a bad product.