Daily status reports are really a special form of hell. There is no value in something so fine-grained except to the micromanager. It forces a daily interrupt t

Daily status reports are really a special form of hell. There is no value in something so fine-grained except to the micromanager. It forces a daily interrupt that reduces productivity. Most painfully, it effectively prevents (heavily discourages, anyway) a deep dive into anything because you better have a snappy status report for tomorrow. No time for deep research, so all work becomes superficial. Before agile and standups were the hip thing, the norm in all places I worked was to have a weekly team status meeting. Those were great. Weekly is about the right cadence for this type of meeting. It gives you four days to deep dive into technical work without worrying about status reports all the time. With a week, you end up having something meaningful to talk about and listen from others.