We use a project management tool: 1) We make "progress reports" by updating our own tasks assigned to us within the Sprint. The "boss/manager" just takes a pee

We use a project management tool: 1) We make "progress reports" by updating our own tasks assigned to us within the Sprint. The "boss/manager" just takes a peek at burn-down and other charts. For more details he just takes a peek at the latest updates on the comments. 2) Daily, I take 5 minutes to write a simple comment on the task assigned to me. Daily updates are better than weekly ones, weekly comments and paragraph type progress reports tend to be too abstract for it to have actual meaning. Sometimes paragraph-type reports are too verbose for a decision maker to make decisions upon. We let the charts speak for themselves in terms of weekly overviews. If a software development team uses docs and text files to submit reports, 1) the development process is still in its infancy or 2) no budget is alotted for project management tools because quality software development is not a priority for the company.