It can be done in a way that show massive visible progress and impact. Just have to fill plenty of tickets for doing plenty of changes. Adding new features that

It can be done in a way that show massive visible progress and impact. Just have to fill plenty of tickets for doing plenty of changes. Adding new features that are already present, sometimes renaming the file that had them if necessary. Fixing bugs, possibly freshly reintroduced because the existing fix was purposefully ignored or removed. Do you know that progress report and commit messages don't even have to match what was actually done or committed? The project is your playground.