I suppose it all depends on how you measure "progress"? If I run a stand up meeting and you tell me that you found out that the problem you're working on is mor

I suppose it all depends on how you measure "progress"? If I run a stand up meeting and you tell me that you found out that the problem you're working on is more complex than it looked, and that you didn't write a line of code yet while still exploring it, I will still consider that progress.