- 1 . Use jira or any other porject managment tools instead.

- 2 . Use Zulip - and integrate them with project management tools.

- 3 . Zulip is good for this also

- 4 . Unless you need to share screen and explain things , you don't need meetings for that.

- 5 - Chat please

- 6 - Brainstroming is only place where meetings are needed.

I stick to IC roles but personally I prefer meetings over your alternatives.

Project management tools are there for the long view and tracking, I don't want to juggle priorities of a JIRA backlog, it basically pushes the burden of PM to me. With a meeting if someone has a blocker thats on me I prefer if they raise it in front of the team and we agree if it should get done now or later. Other than that I share what I am currently focusing on and ignore the rest until I have to deal with it. Multitasking and context switching is a PITA and I will gladly delegate that to PM and hop on a meeting to sync with everyone.

I don't want to be spammed with JIRA updates on dozens of tickets I might be needed on, only to forget about them in 15 mins when something more important comes up.

And written communication takes more effort, it's a tradeoff for sure.