Although having a team manifesto is a wonderful thing, it is essentially completely useless if your team happens to be one of the following:
- Too pig-headed to agree to one
- Too individual to follow one
- Too sheepish to need one to bring them into line
I love the basic elements referred to in
http://bobtuse.blogspot.com/2009/05/team-manifesto-craftsmanship-behavior.html
being,
- define (internal) quality
- define behaviour
- define process/procedures
If you can't do this, you can't be a team. If you need to do this, then you don't yet have a team. If you have a team working to this, then you don't need a manifesto. The important aspect, though, is the basic need for the team to want, or else see its own need for, such a manifesto. Without that, team-ness is effectively directing drones in concert, simply a manifest of resources & activities.
I would sell my soul for the belief that my team could benefit from having a manifesto.
