[MaulingMonkey]

> Have a high-overview webpage where they can look it up by themselves if they need to.

Who keeps this up to date and well maintained? I see little fundamental difference between pushing metrics/status via JIRA and pushing via email. Both scale (or don't) just as badly. Both require distraction from your development tasks to properly estimate or summarize status/problems.

Don't get me wrong - keep the daily distraction the hell in check. But there's no magic bullet to make good communication free, and there are plenty of people and contexts where words and language work way better than attempting to abstract things with stats and metrics.

> This is faster than daily and gives much better and accurate info.

Maybe for you. Maybe for me. Definitely not for a lot of coworkers I've known. They do not context switch from "this is harder than I thought" to "track down the JIRA task and change my estimates". Getting some of them to even log work done is like pulling teeth. Hence hacks like the daily standup - poll, use words, get the real status.

[mrleinad]

Having worked for a company that used daily status reports via email, I can say that they are an absolute pain in the ass, but clients were delighted by them when done properly. Those status provide a clear hand written description of what your team did and next steps to take. I can honestly say that those reports did as much as the quality code to show us as a professional team in which the client could trust. And yes, if you couldn't write your own status for each day, even after training and guidance to do so, you weren't a fit for the company. It was one of the best companies I've worked for and where I learned the most.