Currently dealing with remote work involving daily manager updates (manager in “stand ups” that are, as is often the case, not really stand ups but just telling your manager what you did) and no real project management/planning. Didn’t realize just how important 1) not having your actual, personal manager in your project stand ups and 2) week or longer planned-out targets for completing things sorted out by a real project manager were to my happiness (and productivity). Stressful as fuck.
Sounds like the problem is with your manager. IMHO a good manager is more than welcome in project management and update meetings and should be a helper to get things done, not a stressor.
I think maybe if project management and “stakeholder” status weren’t also effectively done by the manager it might make it OK. I got spoiled by a few years at a place with outstanding project management and it’s taking some adjustment to go back to so loose a style.
