[Yizahi]

I don't like or dislike daily meetings much personally, but I think they are needed - mainly for scrum master and PO. Daily can't be replaced realistically with bug tracker dashboard because 80% of daily time is not bug status discussion but let's say mostly human problems. Also I believe there is zero correlation between success of the project as a whole and a need for daily, none at all. People suggest async text in chat but eventually harder and more detailed issues will raise a need to actually talk and while it will save 20 minutes time of each participant who now don't have to listen to other people's issues it will also isolate people from potentially useful information and prevent them to suggest their ideas or ask for clarification , basically limiting in-team collaboration.

[mattmanser]

I think they are needed - mainly for scrum master and PO...[but] there is zero correlation between success of the project as a whole and a need for daily

So, basically, what you're really saying is they're not needed and you don't need scrum masters or POs.

[Yizahi]

No, I mean that when project is successful a need for daily (or other detailed sync) doesn't diminish. You are still making decisions, plan complex features and communicate with the same humans, only company account has more zeroes, that's all difference.

PS: in our case SMs and POs are actually doing useful work and we aren't holding any worthless meetings which are solely to entertain people not doing anything. If that was what you implied.