> ...Intellectual work doesn't lead itself to reporting status on completed tickets every single day. Status is WIP until completion. As for the intellectual w

> ...Intellectual work doesn't lead itself to reporting status on completed tickets every single day. Status is WIP until completion. As for the intellectual work, that's just outright Analysis stage. Most of dev's work is actually analysis. Sure, there's implementation, testing and such, but Analysis is almost non-stop. Anonter way to put this is Evaluation of Alternatives, Optimization of Approaches.