--- title: Stop bothering your IT team with questions | daily.dev description: IT managers should answer 80% of project questions independently by leveraging existing resources like backlogs, repositories, pull requests, and metrics... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nzcy6ambs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop bothering your IT team with questions | daily.dev og:description: IT managers should answer 80% of project questions independently by leveraging existing resources like backlogs, repositories, pull requests, and metrics... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nzcy6ambs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nZCY6aMBs.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop bothering your IT team with questions **[Misfits Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/misfitsdevelopers)** · [@effectivedelivery](https://daily.dev/effectivedelivery) · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary IT managers should answer 80% of project questions independently by leveraging existing resources like backlogs, repositories, pull requests, and metrics instead of constantly interrupting developers. Each interruption costs 15-30 minutes of context-switching time and creates chain reactions affecting multiple team members. Managers with poor project awareness catch delivery problems too late, leading to missed deadlines. The solution involves regularly reviewing task trackers for feature status, monitoring cycle/lead time metrics for timeline predictions, examining repositories for technical decisions, conducting effective standups for blockers, reviewing pull requests for implementation details, and understanding requirements during initial stakeholder meetings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Stop letting ‘urgent’ derail delivery. 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