Great Big Agile: An OS for Agile Leaders

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63. Team Agreement

Jeff Dalton¹ 

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Waterford, MI, USA

 

Description

A team agreement is a social contract entered into by members of an agile team to define team behaviors, expectations, and standards. Some team agreements are simple ideas written on a white board, while others are detailed charters that contain important facts about the team itself. Team agreements are typically developed at the beginning of a release and can be updated after each sprint retrospective or sprint demo.

Self-organization is an important goal for any agile team, and a self-organized team clearly defines the parameters for team operations. Individual agile team members may have specialized ...