[gmfawcett]

I don't think a client-facing changelog tells us much at all about how the dev-team celebrates.

Calling it a cultural issue seems off. Perhaps in some cases it is. But if the process truly is a grind, then the only target left to celebrate might be a proxy metric that the devs don't relate to. (Congrats on staying within 0.5 sigma of our mean time to deliver this week, let's have a pizza.)

[maccard]

Celebrating doesn't have to be a reward, and assuming that celebrating a release involves a material reward is certainly cultural. To me, the important part of celebrating a release/milestone is pausing and reflecting on what has changed. That only needs to be a small nod.