Is There Any More Wisdom to Lending to This Question?

If he's really concerned about dates, there's probably other things you can do to alleviate the date pressure. Or publish that information through like an asynchronous channel so that he's not coming to you and saying, is it done yet? Is it done yet?" There may be another manager in this situation who could help. And if you can clearly communicate the effect that this micromanagement is having on your team,. maybe that manager can help you put in place some process to protect you from micromanagement.