Agile Team Charter
What this team has agreed about how it works — written down, so it survives disagreement and new members.
Every team has working agreements. Most are unspoken, which means they are actually assumptions, and they break the first time someone senior joins or a deadline gets tight. This charter makes them explicit and gets them signed.
What's inside
- Team purpose — what this team exists to deliver
- Membership and roles — who is on it, what each person is accountable for
- Working agreements — hours, availability, communication norms, how disagreements are handled
- Ceremonies and information flow — which meetings, how long, who attends, what comes out
- Decision and escalation rules — what the team decides itself, and what goes up
- Definition of Ready and Done — the two definitions that prevent most agile arguments
- Charter acceptance — signed by the team, not imposed on it
Sixteen pre-built tables.
Why Ready and Done are the heart of it
Teams argue endlessly about whether work is finished because nobody agreed what finished means. Two short definitions, agreed once and displayed, remove more friction than any amount of process.
Who it's for
New teams forming, existing teams that keep having the same argument, and scrum masters who want the agreements to belong to the team rather than to them.
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