[adamjc]

Our crew use a Kanban approach, and to counter the 'slog' mentality, we have a retrospective every 2 weeks. I find that it really helps air what good we've done, and where we could improve. If we've accomplished a lot it's a great place to reflect and think positively.

[gjmulhol]

I really like this idea. We groom our Kanban board, which creates a similar effect, but not so explicitly.

In your case or ours, one of the nice things about stepping back is reprioritization, which happens nicely in Scrum but not so much in Kanban. It is easy to define a path and never diverge only to wake up and realize you built an old vision.