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I once had a manager ask me to email him a progress report every day; This seems to have become very nearly normalised in the guise of daily stand ups. Some w
by dasmoth 9y ago
I once had a manager ask me to email him a progress report every day;
This seems to have become very nearly normalised in the guise of daily stand ups. Some would argue it's less intrusive if it's for "the team" rather than for an individual manager, but I'm not convinced myself.
and every hour or two, he'd make a point of interrupting me to ask me "so how's <current_task> going?"
Similarly, in environments where tasks are getting broken down into tickets that are only expected to take a few hours, there's a similar level of oversight (although hopefully a bit less disruptive than hourly shoulder-taps, I agree).
- everyone 9y agoI worked for a startup that grew up around me. We started without any project managers and such and they got introduced as the team grew and grew. I would just make tasks like "figure out how to do X", "look into this framework Y", "write a really good SO post for the bug we came across in library Z" . Worked fine, tho the PM for my project was sound.
- wry_discontent 9y agoI'm at the first job I've ever had that didn't do daily standups and it's liberating. I've never been more productive at work. Maybe once a week my manager comes by and asks me how something is going. I give him a high level sketch and a time estimate. He goes along on his way after that.