Isn't this what all these funky agile ticket management systems are for? So that both the managers and ICs can look at the board and know, asynchronously, what's going on?
This would require people spend like... an hour... figuring out how the ticketing system works, and then checking it, or at least paying attention to the emails that it kicks out when somebody changes something on a ticket.
It would also require developers to close things when they're done, make regular comments on the tickets as milestones are met, filling in the correct keywords or components so that the ticket is included in the right board, etc. Just saying it's a two way street.
Whenever someone says "This [meeting | standup] could have been an E-mail!" I respond "So do you read and respond to your E-mail?" I love asynchronous, but the entire team has to put in the effort to make it work.
