Thanks. I'm reading all the comments. I definitely felt like what the boss was upset about at the meeting had more to do with the technical side, rather than communication.
I feel like my communication with my manager was good. We have all-team meets (that the boss isn't a part of) where I gave weekly status updates, and there's a group chat on slack with my manager where me and the other person on the project discussed what we were working on. I also maintain a github project that shows the status of everything I'm working on that takes me more than one day (and try to keep it up-to-date with what the other person on the project is doing too).
But there was virtually no communication between me and my skip boss. My feeling is that I should have been doing more to keep him in the loop. I think, viewing from the outside, some might say that the management hierarchy exists for a reason and just communicating with my direct manager should be fine, but I think the skip boss would have appreciated being kept more directly in the loop.
I feel like my communication with my manager was good. We have all-team meets (that the boss isn't a part of) where I gave weekly status updates, and there's a group chat on slack with my manager where me and the other person on the project discussed what we were working on. I also maintain a github project that shows the status of everything I'm working on that takes me more than one day (and try to keep it up-to-date with what the other person on the project is doing too).
But there was virtually no communication between me and my skip boss. My feeling is that I should have been doing more to keep him in the loop. I think, viewing from the outside, some might say that the management hierarchy exists for a reason and just communicating with my direct manager should be fine, but I think the skip boss would have appreciated being kept more directly in the loop.