The world is on fire! None of our efforts in software development will matter at all if we don't change the course of the climate crisis. The software lifecycle also causes direct and indirect CO2 emissions: It leaves a footprint and exacerbates environmental problems. However, the environmental aspect is not the only one we need to focus on. If we take our responsibility seriously, we must consider software development holistically, in the sense of the so-called triple bottom line, from all three sustainability perspectives: social, economic, and ecological. Sustainability is, on the one hand, a necessity in the current crisis and, on the other hand, increasingly a key factor that determines the success of companies both in the search for talent and for customers and markets.

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Agile Development for Digital Sustainability:
More usable, valuable & feasible!
Jutta Eckstein

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Agile Development for Digital Sustainability:
More usable, valuable & feasible!
Jutta Eckstein
Pollution Control Commissioner on Ecological Environmentalism
Constant Customer Focus
Understand the
economic, ecologic, societal, and social
environment as a customer that needs
permanent attention.

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Agenda
What? Facts So what? Insights
Now what? This is what you can do!

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Social/People

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Social/People
Environment/Planet
CO2 emissions of ICT > aviation

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Sustainability
Social/People
Environment/Planet
Economic/Prosperity
CO2 emissions of ICT > aviation

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Agenda
What? Facts So what? Insights
Now what? This is what you can do!

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Where do we stand?
https://bit.ly/3M8knfc
Full
assessment
under
(cc):
https://bit.ly/agile-sustainability

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Agenda
What? Facts So what? Insights
Now what? This is what you can do!

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Personas
◼ Do your personas
exclude users?
◼ …and note:
– Personas are not about
demographics…
– But about problems and
challenges people face
King Charles

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Stories
As a {insert user},
I want to {insert users’ want},
So, I can {insert value to the
user}
With the impact of {insert
impact on environment,
social, etc.}
Source:
Michael
Fearer:
https://bit.ly/impactStories
Note: It’s not about the form, it’s about the content!
As a designer,
I want to reduce the amount of font types,
So, the page performance will increase for
users and pages will be more digestible,
With the impact of reduced CO2
emissions because of less data transfer.

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Data Centre / Cloud Provider
◼ Google
– https://bit.ly/4cvfeGz
◼ Amazon
– Select a region based on
sustainability goals
– https://bit.ly/49bxsKH
◼ Azure
– Improve energy & carbon
efficiency
– https://bit.ly/3VzYt7c

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https://theagileplayground.com/the-planet-retrospective/
Planet as a Stakeholder Retrospective

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How do
we meet?
What is the
added value?
Is outsourcing
part of
development?

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Build Connect
https://bit.ly/agile-sustainability
https://bit.ly/AA-sustainability-initiative
agilesustainabilitymanifesto.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein
@agilealliance.social@JuttaEckstein
@juttaeckstein.bsky.social
https://jeckstein.com/sustainability
PDUs

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Thank you!