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Working Agreements are one of the core compacts that all good Agile teams need and use. For those of you unfamiliar with Working Agreements, they are nothing more than agreed upon protocols created by the team govern their interactions and clarify expectations. They are different from Ground Rules which tend to be more about meeting guidelines, but some Ground Rules do go into the direction of what I call Working Agreements.
Much has been written on how to create these simple guidelines (my favorite articleis from Esther Derby), so here is the process I use when working with a new (or existing) Scrum Team.