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title: "Visible Progress"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/23/visible-progress.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/23/visible-progress.html"
published: "2004-01-23T15:01:00"
updated: "2004-01-23T15:01:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Johannah Rothman writes about visible progress in a project for the manager.You should really read the whole thing to see just how unhealthy mine and my manager's actions were on my Don Quixote story ."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Visible Progress

By Roy Osherove January 23, 2004

**Historical article** · Originally published January 23, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Johannah Rothman](http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/) writes about [visible progress in a project](http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/archive/2004_01_01_mpdarchive.html#107487089377409088) for the manager.You should really read the whole thing to see just how unhealthy mine and my manager's actions were on my [Don Quixote story](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/DonKihote.aspx).


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/