The only thing worse than keeping JIRA constantly up to date is keeping interrupting managers up to date when I already keep JIRA constantly up to date with the thing they're asking about. It gets amusing when I'm deep down enough into the technical weeds that I've forgotten the exact high level task I'm working on (the thing the manager actually cares about), and refer to JIRA myself to answer the question of what I'm working on.

Could be worse - you could be using Rally.

Or a giant board of post-it notes.