Agile Team Names

Five agile team names a press: scrum and sprint puns, kanban and flow, stand-ups and retros, estimates and backlog.

  1. Remote Stand-Up, Camera On
  2. Thin Vertical Slices
  3. Visualize the Work
  4. The Retrospectacles
  5. Sprint Review Crew

How it works

These agile team names come five at a press, from Definition of Done to Increment Weather. All 101 are built on words of sprints and boards, and none was taken from a company, a software tool or a training course.

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Scrum team names

Scrum and sprint puns is the first set in the menu: Velocity Raptors, Scrumptious Increments, Time Boxers and Ship It Squad. The last set is built on estimates and the backlog: Thirteen Point Story, Epic Proportions, Backlog Lumberjacks and Technical Debt Collectors.

Boards and meetings

Kanban and flow has names for a team that pulls work across a board: Swimlane Lifeguards, Mind the WIP Limit and Moved to Done. The third set is the meetings: Daily Stand-Up Comedians, The Retrospectacles and Wall of Stickies.

Questions and answers

What are some cool agile team names?

Definition of Done, Definition of Ready, Work in Progress, Inspect and Adapt and Potentially Shippable are terms of the method used as they are, with no pun added.

What is a fun name for a scrum team?

Scrum and Get It, Scrum Masterpieces, Sprint Finishers, Demo or It Didn't Happen and Never Late to Daily Scrum all carry a scrum word.

What is a good name for a kanban team?

Flow State, Bottleneck Breakers, Lean Machines, Single Piece Flow and Kaizen Crew are in the Kanban and flow set, which has 24 names.

Is any tool, company or certificate in the list?

No. None was taken from a company, a software tool, a training course or a certificate. Scrum and kanban are used as the plain names of two ways of working.

All 101 names

Scrum and sprint puns 27

  • Agile Enough
  • Agile Manifesters
  • Agile, Not Fragile
  • Ceremony Masters
  • Definition of Done
  • Demo or It Didn't Happen
  • Done Done
  • Empirically Speaking
  • Fail Fast, Learn Faster
  • The Increments
  • Inspect and Adapt
  • Iteration Nation
  • The Iterators
  • Potentially Shippable
  • Product Owners Club
  • Scrum and Get It
  • Scrum Masterpieces
  • Scrumptious Increments
  • Self Organized
  • Servant Leaders
  • Ship It Squad
  • Sprint Finishers
  • Sprint Goal in Sight
  • Sprint Review Crew
  • Three Pillars Standing
  • Time Boxers
  • Velocity Raptors

Kanban and flow 24

  • Bottleneck Breakers
  • Card Aging Gracefully
  • Cumulative Flow
  • Cycle Time Trimmers
  • Expedite Lane
  • Flow State
  • Kaizen Crew
  • Lean Machines
  • Mind the WIP Limit
  • Moved to Done
  • Pull System Pals
  • Pull, Don't Push
  • Short Lead Timers
  • Signal Cards
  • Single Piece Flow
  • Stop Starting, Start Finishing
  • Stuck in Review
  • Swimlane Lifeguards
  • Third Column Crew
  • Throughput Troop
  • To Do, Doing, Done
  • Unblocked
  • Visualize the Work
  • Work in Progress

Stand-ups, retros and planning 23

  • Agenda: Demo, Retro, Cake
  • Big Room Planners
  • Blameless Retro Bunch
  • Capacity Planners
  • Daily Stand-Up Comedians
  • Dot Voters
  • Facilitators at Large
  • Fifteen Minutes Standing
  • Icebreaker Question Askers
  • Keep Doing This
  • Never Late to Daily Scrum
  • Rear View Retro
  • Remote Stand-Up, Camera On
  • Retro Active
  • Retro Rocketeers
  • The Retrospectacles
  • Review and Retro Regulars
  • Sprint Demo Snack Table
  • Stand-Up, Sit Down, Ship
  • Standing Room Only Stand-Up
  • Start, Stop, Continue
  • Walking the Board
  • Wall of Stickies

Estimates, backlog and releases 27

  • Acceptance Criteria Met
  • As a User, I Want
  • Backlog Lumberjacks
  • Burn Up Brigade
  • Burndown Believers
  • Carried Over Again
  • Definition of Ready
  • Epic Proportions
  • Epics and Stories
  • Estimate Is Not a Promise
  • Feature Freeze Tag
  • Increment Weather
  • Next Sprint, Maybe
  • No Estimates Needed
  • Point Inflation
  • Priority One
  • Ready for Release
  • Released on a Friday
  • Scope Keepers
  • Spike Solution
  • Technical Debt Collectors
  • Thin Vertical Slices
  • Thirteen Point Story
  • Top of the Backlog
  • User Story Tellers
  • Velocity Check
  • Well Refined
How this list was compiled

A list of 101 agile team names written by Wheel of Teams on 2026-10-02 and filed in four groups. Every name is built on a word of agile work: a sprint, a board, a stand-up, a retrospective, a story point or a backlog. None was taken from a company, a software tool, a training course or a certificate, and any match with a real team is a coincidence. The words were looked up on 2026-10-02 in Wikipedia's Scrum, Kanban and Agile software development articles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(project_management), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development), text under CC BY-SA 4.0. Compared by script the same day with every other list on this site: no name is repeated. Nothing was checked against a trademark register. Licence: own work