Agile Team Working Agreement

An agile team working agreement is essential for establishing clear expectations, improving collaboration, and creating psychological safety within development teams. This Agile Team Working Agreement template helps product teams, engineering squads, and cross-functional agile groups document their shared commitments around availability, ceremonies, communication channels, code quality standards, and conflict resolution.

Whether you're a newly formed squad kicking off your first sprint or an established team looking to refine how you work together, this template guides your team through defining core hours, meeting cadences, tool preferences, review standards, and decision-making protocols. By capturing these agreements upfront, you reduce misunderstandings, streamline onboarding for new team members, and create a reference document that evolves with your team's needs.

Who should use this template:

• Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches facilitating team formation or retrospectives
• Engineering Managers setting up new product squads or development teams
• Product Managers aligning cross-functional teams around shared working norms
• DevOps and IT teams establishing operational agreements and on-call protocols
• Consultancies and agencies defining engagement norms with client-facing agile teams

This form integrates seamlessly into your agile workflow. Once submitted, use Stepper to automatically post the working agreement to your team wiki, share it in Slack or Microsoft Teams, and set calendar reminders for quarterly reviews. You can also connect it to project management tools like Jira, Asana, or Linear to ensure working agreements are accessible where your team already collaborates.

Paperform's conditional logic allows the form to adapt based on team size, remote vs. co-located setup, and ceremony preferences, ensuring every team gets a tailored agreement that reflects their unique context. With Paperform's professional themes and custom branding, your working agreement looks polished and reinforces team identity from day one.