Working agreement
A working agreement a set of principles you’ve agreed to follow as a group, to do your best work. These should be concrete things that people can actually do. To develop them, ask yourself:
- What are some things we should always do?
- What are some things we should never do?
- How should we communicate?
- How can we make this the best team we’ve ever worked with?
Example principles:
- Ask for help when we need it
- Be transparent and honest
- Actively give constructive feedback
- Join meetings on time
- Communicate our schedule and mark absences on a shared calendar
- Save all in-progress work to a shared location
- Monotask during working sessions
- Listen with respect when others are speaking
These ideas draw heavily on Lara Hogan’s writing about working groups.
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