Daily check-ins can be necessary under certain circumstances. (Think all-hands-on-deck quickly evolving situations with a tight deadline and several unknowns. L

Daily check-ins can be necessary under certain circumstances. (Think all-hands-on-deck quickly evolving situations with a tight deadline and several unknowns. Like a big feature launch.) Sometimes you might even need them twice a day. You cannot do it much more often, though. So the big problem with scrum is not the daily, but it's ceremonious importance. It's just fixed, it doesn't have any reason. One does it because scrum. If you look closely, you'll see more of that pattern in scrum. Sprints, for instance, are a given. Yet, why would anybody do them when there are no new features to be developed? When a product is mature and needs maintenance or simply doesn't exist at all, there's no reason to do sprints. Whenever there's no feedback from stakeholders, there's no reason to do sprints.