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Team Charter Questions

30 items

Every team develops working agreements whether or not it writes them down, and the unwritten ones are always someone's preference that nobody challenged. Draw these in a new team's first fortnight and decide deliberately instead. Thirty questions covering hours, communication, decisions, quality and conflict. Existing teams get more out of it than new ones, because the answers reveal the rules people did not know they had been following.

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1What are our core hours?
2What is a reasonable response time?
3Which channel for which kind of message?
4When is it acceptable to message out of hours?
5Which meetings are mandatory?
6Can anyone decline a meeting?
7How do we run our standup?
8What does our definition of done include?
9Who reviews what?
10How long should a review take?
11How do we handle disagreement about approach?
12Who breaks a tie?
13How do we make decisions reversible?
14When do we escalate?
15How do we say no to a request?
16How do we handle interruptions?
17Who protects focus time?
18How do we share on-call?
19What does support rotation look like?
20How do we onboard someone new?
21How do we give each other feedback?
22How do we celebrate something going well?
23What do we do when someone is stuck?
24How do we handle a missed deadline?
25What is our quality bar, concretely?
26When is good enough good enough?
27How much documentation is enough?
28How do we keep the team page current?
29What behaviour is not acceptable here?
30How and when do we revisit this charter?
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