I've seen scrum done to the point of _religion_ at one company, and as loose as a few times a week async over slack at others. What I've seen is that the more

I've seen scrum done to the point of _religion_ at one company, and as loose as a few times a week async over slack at others. What I've seen is that the more hardcore you are about scrum/agile, the more it works against you. It's something of an anti-pattern. That isn't to say the entire notion of regular short meetings should be thrown out entirely, though. What seems the right balance, depending on your situation of course, is to have a quick team meeting over zoom/other two or three times per week if possible, async otherwise over slack or similar. Leave the rest of the ceremony out entirely, and use something like kanban/trello/etc for tracking specifics. The meeting isn't at all about the kanban board/cards, it's about the team spontaneously discussing approaches/issues and helping each other out. One of those "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" things.