Having worked my way a little up the engineer management chain, I have seen how easily one can lose the "pulse" of an engineering project if you are not day to

Having worked my way a little up the engineer management chain, I have seen how easily one can lose the "pulse" of an engineering project if you are not day to day immersed in it. I would get a good sense of what the team was doing was on the right track or not but lose a lot of the details and context since I don't deal with it day by day. I had to rely on trusted reports to feed me the right data. I think if you move just one or two level up the management chain you lose all context of what is going on and are just parroting things back and forth. Kind of why I decided to step down a little.