Team Working Agreements

What is a Working Agreement?

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• List of behaviors and rules a team decides are useful for working together in a productive and respectful way

How Working Agreements Help?

• Develop a sense of shared responsibility
• Increase members' awareness of their own behavior
• Empower the facilitator to lead the group according to the agreements
• Enhance the quality of the group process

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Questions to consider

• What is important to me as a team member?
• What do we value and how do we show it?
• How do we want to work together?
• What do we want to do when we don't agree?

Pet Rule

Common things found on Working Agreements

• Core team hours
• Meetings: be on time, end on time, have agenda
• Time of standup
• Update Scrum board daily
• Define and adhere to DOD
• Define and adhere to DOR for PBIs
• Communications channels

Example of a team's working agreement at dice.com

Example of a Team's Working agreement at OPENDNS Engineering

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