> I once had a manager ask me to email him a progress report every day; and every hour or two, he'd make a point of interrupting me to ask me "so how's <current

> I once had a manager ask me to email him a progress report every day; and every hour or two, he'd make a point of interrupting me to ask me "so how's <current_task> going?" Asking a developer's status progress everyday or every hour? That shows the manager has absolutely no clue how development works. Period. Developers don't need a manager to "help" them make tradeoff on a daily basis. Developers need managers to back the fuck off to let them alone to concentrate on the mentally taxing work at hand.