Is daily % progress tracking in Excel normal for dev teams?

My manager recently started asking the team to update a shared Excel sheet every day before leaving work.

For each change request / project we have to write:

• what we worked on that day
• a % completion estimate
• if we didn’t touch it that day we must write “no progress”

He also asked us to avoid status updates and instead write the exact action we did that day (for example: “updated FS section x.xx” or “discussion about issue xxxx”). Blank cells aren’t allowed.

The reason given is that we’re approaching the end of the half-year timeline and he wants to monitor progress more closely.

I understand wanting visibility, but development work doesn’t always translate well into daily % progress updates. Some days are debugging, investigation, or discussions, which can look like “no progress” even though time was spent.

I’m curious how other teams handle this.

Do your teams:

• Track daily progress updates like this?
• Estimate percentage completion for development tasks?

Or is this considered unusual?