Team Charter

❓What is it

• A Team Charter is a collaborative document defining a team's purpose, objectives, norms, and working agreements, serving as a foundational guide for team interactions and expectations.
• It should be initially created as part of getting ready for the Validation phase, and reappraised from reflections out of retrospectives

👥 Who

• Team charter technique is a team exercise, typically facilitated by the Delivery Manager.
• Only the core team should be involved in the exercise

🛠 Running the technique

• If running this virtually, the team can use an existing Team Charter exercise template on Westminster’s Miro account
• A 1-2-4-All technique can be used to facilitate consensus on the key statements to form the team charter
• Ensure all team members agree with the statements drafted.
• Focus of the statements should be on behaviours, expectations of ways of working within the team, promoting respectful accountability with each other, and reflect the purpose of the teams’ goals
• The statements should be intuitive and memorable and recommend around 6 to 8 statements are used at the outset to encourage recall and adoption
• Review and refine the team charter at various points of the team’s journey from initial mobilisation through to maturity

📖Additional source

(Team charter activity template, Visual Workspace for Innovation (miro.com) -  copy as image here?)