Liftoff, 2nd Edition

Understanding Alignment

Effective team alignment develops a coherent core team. Alignment, the second of the three critical elements of your team’s charter, also includes three parts. Shared simple rules guide individual team members’ decisions to align with the whole. Exploring core team membership helps the group form an approach to the work. Working agreements get the core team started on the project. In these ways, alignment helps the team create an alliance to achieve its mission.

Simple Rules

In agile chartering, values represent your team’s beliefs and ideals about what matters in regard to the work at hand. Each team member joined the ...