But at the office, she said, "you can spend weeks on a project and you don't see any visible progress".
He has not made any visible progress in forcing Mexico to pay for a border wall.
The lack of any visible progress has fed the frustrations of local people and international donors over the government's incompetence and corruption, raising fears that it has squandered a chance to win over a pivotal population in its war against militancy, which has been urged on by the United States.
Jones singled out Billy Vunipola, as well as his brother Mako, as an example of a player making visible progress – and hopes England will have at least 15 representatives on the Lions tour to New Zealand next year.
Fred Whitridge (FW): I did a conversion in 1993-94 because I wanted a project with visible progress.
On "The Early Show" on Wednesday, he used a discussion of rebuilding at the World Trade Center site to offer yet another critique of real-time report cards, lamenting the tendency of New Yorkers to complain about a lack of visible progress.
Despite a lack of visible progress in catching up with Google, the leader in Internet search engines, Microsoft says it still believes that it will eventually turn the tables by improving the quality of its search results and by changing the way computer users search.
DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox and Nickelodeon have all taken a look at Talking Friends, but so far the only visible progress is an animated Web series for Disney.com and Disney's YouTube channel.
Mr Ban said the only way to end the violence was "through visible progress toward a political solution".
And as that treaty comes to an end in 2012, it's incredibly important that the negotiations in Durban make at least some visible progress towards a coherent political and legally binding agreement on tackling climate emissions.
