--- title: Stop chasing your team | daily.dev description: Engineering managers who spend their days chasing ticket updates and following up on PRs are dealing with a clarity problem, not a discipline problem. When a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rbl8fhjsd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop chasing your team | daily.dev og:description: Engineering managers who spend their days chasing ticket updates and following up on PRs are dealing with a clarity problem, not a discipline problem. When a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rbl8fhjsd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rBl8FhJSD.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 chasing your team **[Devs Together Strong](https://daily.dev/sources/devstogetherstrong)** · [@stmoreau](https://daily.dev/stmoreau) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Engineering managers who spend their days chasing ticket updates and following up on PRs are dealing with a clarity problem, not a discipline problem. When a manager becomes the primary mechanism for keeping work moving, it signals a broken system rather than a broken team. Engineers deprioritize process updates because they've learned the tracking system doesn't reflect reality. The fix involves making priorities ruthlessly narrow (top two, not top ten), connecting work to outcomes, designing accountability into workflows via automation and visibility tools, reformatting standups to surface surprises rather than status, and investing in context-sharing over control. The litmus test: take a real week off and see if the team self-directs. The goal is building systems that sustain themselves so managers can focus on growing people, shaping strategy, and organizational impact. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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