Manager in charge of multiple different projects because "success in organisation" == "number of people managed" regardless of whether they are being managed well or not.
Manager needs daily updates of all things going on his "team", because otherwise not have fucking clue about what manager is "managing" and clearly far too difficult for manager to read JIRA board, look at commit histories etc. Much more efficient for everyone to sit around for an hour during which they maybe have ten minutes of productive discussion.