Agile Team Charter

Creating an Agile Team Charter is one of the most impactful ways to set your team up for success from day one. This template helps agile teams—whether new or re-forming—align on vision, working agreements, communication norms, and decision-making processes that keep sprints running smoothly.

With Paperform's intuitive form builder, you can gather input from every team member during your first sprint planning session or retrospective, ensuring everyone has a voice in how the team operates. The form captures everything from core mission and team values to practical details like working hours, meeting cadence, definition of done, and conflict resolution approaches.

This Agile Team Charter template is ideal for Scrum Masters, Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and Project Managers working in software development, IT services, product teams, digital agencies, and consulting firms. It's especially valuable during team formation, major project kickoffs, or when onboarding new team members who need to understand how your squad operates.

Once completed, you can use Stepper (stepper.io) to automatically route the charter to stakeholders for review, create a shared document in Notion or Confluence, notify team members via Slack, and even schedule a follow-up retrospective to revisit agreements after a few sprints. This ensures your charter becomes a living document that evolves with your team, not a one-time exercise gathering dust.

Whether you're practicing Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid agile approach, this template helps you formalize the "how we work together" conversations that make the difference between a high-performing team and one that struggles with misalignment and friction.