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Agile For Sustainability
The document discusses how agile principles and mindsets can be applied to help drive sustainability transformations. It argues that agile approaches can help impact key dimensions like processes, products/services, organizational culture, and ecosystems. Specific agile tools and techniques like lean, value stream mapping, and empiricism are highlighted as being useful for addressing challenges like waste reduction, collaboration, and sensing weak signals. The document calls for injecting sustainability into everything agilists do and leading by example in helping achieve environmental goals.
Agile For Sustainability
- 1. AGILE FOR SUSTAINABILITY VincenzoLanza Emiliano Soldi AgileTriathlete https://www.EmilianoSoldi.it https://medium.com/@enzomelke
- 3. SARNO river isone of the causes and also one of the most polluted river in Europe GUL F OF NAPL E S Source: https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-italy-stateless/2018/11/549f2090-549f2090-ismar_report_finale.pdf 3,53 items/m3 Microplastics F ROM T HE WORL D Source: https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/ 100 % Of Mussels tested have contained Microplastics 10 million Tons of plastics are dumped in our oceans every year! 180 kg Of Plastic that we eat during our entire life. 1 million Marine animals are killed by plastic pollution every year «THERE WILL BE MORE PLASTIC IN OUR OCEANS THAN FISH IN 2050» The Ellen McArthur Foundation
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- 6. DAMN GOOD HABITS N O TE A S Y A N D T H A T ’ S N O T E N O U G H … I S N ’ T I T ?
- 7. …AND, UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVESOME BUGS TOO COGNITIVE BIAS LINEAR THINKING A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input Linear thinking is that way of thinking in which we consider an idea or a process to begin from a point, follow a series of connected steps, and end at a point Source: https://psychologenie.com/linear-thinking-vs-non-linear-thinking Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias
- 8. … B UT E X T E R N A L S T A K E H O L D E R S P R E S S U R E I S I N C R E A S I N G Sources: Accenture Future of Work Study; Accenture Covid-19 Consumer Pulse Study; Principles for Responsible Investment; Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Research; Blackrock Employees believe organizations should be responsible for leaving their people “net better off” through work 65 % Consumer plan to make more sustainable or ethical purchases over the next six months 66 % Investors of sustainable indices outperformed their peer benchmarks in 2020 81 %
- 9. … A ND B I G O P P O R T U N I T I E S A R E R I G H T B E H I N D T H E C O R N E R Companies pursuing a Twin Transformation are 2.5x more likely to be among Tomorrow's Leaders 2.5x Source: https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/PDF- 144/Accenture-The-European-Double-Up.pdf Combining sustainability and digital technologies is key to igniting future competitiveness for European countries Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/business- functions/sustainability/our-insights/accelerating-toward- net-zero-the-green-business-building-opportunity More than $12 trillion in potential annual sales by 2030 due to growing demand for net-zero offerings 12$ Trillion DIGITAL TECH + SUSTAINABILITY
- 10. Julie Sweet –Accenture CEO SUSTAINABILITY IS THE NEW DIGITAL Julie Sweet – Accenture CEO “Just as the digital revolution transformed how we live and work, so too will sustainability, driving new value and growth and permeating everything that we do”
- 11. Pursuing that business opportunityis, however, the greatest chance we have to leave a better world for those who will come after us
- 12. United Nations Conference,June 3-14 1992 in Rio de Janeiro It was created as a response for member states to cooperate internationally on issues relating to sustainability being too big for individual member states to handle Source: Wikipedia EARTH SUMMIT
- 13. In a lineareconomy, natural resources are turned into products that are ultimately destined to become waste because of the way they have been designed and manufactured. LINEAR ECONOMY WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE MAJOR PROBLEM THAT BROUGHT THE WORLD TO THIS POINT Take Make Use Dispose Pollute This process is often summarised by "take, make, waste"
- 14. DISCUSSIONS IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS Economic Debate Recycle,Reduce, Reuse Environmental Debate Reduction, Limit, Decrease, Happy Degrowth
- 15. A green economyis an economy that aims at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment. GREEN ECONOMY Source: Wikipedia
- 17. “The world willnot evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation” Albert Einstein
- 18. THE ANTS OFTHE PLANET, AS A WHOLE, HAVE A HIGHER BIOMASS THAN HUMANS THEY HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY INDUSTRIOUS FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, YET THEIR PRODUCTIVITY FEEDS PLANTS, ANIMALS AND THE SOIL.
- 19. WHILE HUMAN INDUSTRYHAS BEEN RUNNING AT FULL CAPACITY FOR A LITTLE OVER A CENTURY, AND IN THIS SHORT TIME IT HAS RUINED VIRTUALLY ALL OF EARTH'S ECOSYSTEMS IT IS NOT NATURE THAT HAS A DESIGN PROBLEM, IT’S US
- 20. Source: https://www.raconteur.net/infographics/worlds-digital-carbon-footprint/ 3,7 %+9 % …AND T E CH US E S L OT S OF E NE RGY 0,2gr Tweet Of total greenhouse emission 4gr Regular email Annual increase in energy consumption THE FOOTPRINT OF USING INTERNET Measured in grammes of CO2 equivalent emissions Videoconferencing of an hour 150gr Streaming video of an hour 55gr THE WORLD’S DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
- 21. A MODEL OFPRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION, WHICH INVOLVES SHARING, LEASING, REUSING, REPAIRING, REFURBISHING AND RECYCLING EXISTING MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS AS LONG AS POSSIBLE Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Circular_Economy_concept.png CIRCULAR E CONOMY CAN HE L P
- 22. WAIT, WHAT HAVEWE DONE UP TO NOW? …and, if we Agilists have not been part of the solution till now, we must have been part of the problem…
- 23. HEY! IT’S NOWTIME TO STEP IN AND PUSH THE CHANGE OUR COMMUNITY OF AGILISTS HAS HUGE POTENTIAL
- 24. “Our aim isto have removed 90% of floating ocean plastic by 2040. We plan to do this by cleaning up the legacy plastic -the plastic already floating in the ocean- and by “closing the tap” through river plastic interception.” Source: shorturl.at/gjqvN T H E A G I L E - L E A N M I N D S E T I S K E Y T O A N Y T R A N S F O R M A T I O N S T O W A R D S S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y The Rio Motagua based n in Guatemala suffers yearly trash tsunamis, devastating the environment. 20,000 estimated tonnes of plastic currently flows through the Rio Motagua into the Caribbean Sea on an annual basis.
- 25. S US TA IN A BILIT Y T RA N S F ORMA TION S IMPACT FOUR KEY DIMENS IONS Addressing lost value along the various steps and through recovery or reuse of any by-products of business processes in terms of energy, emissions, water and waste Rethinking products or services in terms of design, life cycle and end of use to optimize its use, eliminating waste and "close the loop" of the product Collaborating and establishing reliable and stable partnerships with public and private sector actors to create an enabling environment for collective transformation and collaboration PROCESSES PRODUCTS & SERVICES Reviewing vision and values, and redefining work practices and policies to Integrate circular principles into the DNA of the enterprise culture ORGANIZATION CULTURE ECOSYSTEMS Seems to ring a bell ...don't you?
- 26. Define Value Establish Value Stream Flow Pull Contin. Improv. I M PA C T O N P R O C E S S E S I N J E C T I N G A G I L E - L E A N C A P A B I L I T I E S Lean Principles Identify the emission points within the primary and secondary production processes and brainstorm on what interventions to put in place and carry out Energy Assess what energy is being used (gray or green) and brainstorm on how to, firstly, reduce consumption and then move to renewable sources Water Review the production processes to reduce water consumption, by processing products in innovative ways or using different raw materials, fostering water reuse Waste Reach zero-waste intent by eliminating waste within each process step, maximizing asset usage and reuse Emissions Lean Tools ✓ Gemba ✓ Value Stream Mapping ✓ Waste Reduction ✓ Bottleneck Analysis ✓ Kanban ✓ Root Cause Analysis ✓ Causal Loops (sys. think.)
- 27. I N JE C T I N G A G I L E - L E A N C A P A B I L I T I E S I M P A C T O N P R O D U C T S & S E R V I C E S Design Ideate from the beginning a circular product or service by using less raw material, being modular, easy maintenable, extensible and with a long life cycle Use Think on how to extend product usage by projecting it as a service or by using dedicated platforms which allow users to share the product multiple times Extension Maximize value creation by increasing obsolescence through proactive maintenance, refurbishing or remanufacturing or resell on second-hand market End of Life Identify how value can be created out of a product the reached its endo of life as, for instance, re-usage, re-cycle or special treatment of waste to create secondary raw material
- 28. I N JE C T I N G A G I L E - L E A N C A P A B I L I T I E S I M P A C T O N O R G A N I Z A T I O N C U L T U R E Vision Establish a long-term inspiring objective, with high level milestones and quantitative objectives; the vision has to drive the subsequent activities identification Innovation Encourage innovation by establishing a ‘’lab’’ mentality to promote lateral thinking. Instill a circular mentality so that it can influence how product and service are built People Involve people from the very beginning of the transformation having them participating on strategic iniatives; organize training and coaching sessions to establish the right mentality Governance Governance needs to focus on creating the conditions and the context where sustainable and circular initiatives can unfold, despite the status-quo and any normal resistance https://www.scrum.org/resources/s crum-values-poster https://agilemanifesto.org/
- 29. I N JE C T I N G A G I L E - L E A N C A P A B I L I T I E S I M P A C T O N E C O S Y S T E M S Sharing Transparent and non-competitive knowledge and experience sharing, to increase opportunities and value creation; often key initiatives and data are shared also with Collaboration Creation of key partnerships with local or regional third parties, to jointly design and develop sustainable circular solutions for the benefit of all the involved stakeholders Funding Solid funding aiming at promoting sutainable, circular initiatives that can be used to acquire or invest in startups, new business models, new product or services, etc. Policies Review or create dedicated coporate policies and norms which aim at promoting, favouring and supporting any sutainable initiatives It’s all about Weak Signals: ✓ Fragmented ✓ Uncertain reliability ✓ Unpredictable ✓ Apparently no utility ✓ Unusual, singular ✓ Submerged Organizations need to create habits for systematically collect insights from the field. People need to meet, share and discuss to discover any emerging patterns, from their first appearance CoPs Open Space Lean Coffee World Café Sprint Reviews Sprint Retros
- 30. BUT THAT’S NOT ENOUGH WENEED TO CHANGE OUR VERY OWN MINDSET INJECTING SUSTAINABILITY IN EVERYTHING WE DO, IN EACH AND EVERY OF OUR ENGAGEMENTS
- 31. Sustainable development Agile processespromote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely. Sustainability Technical Excellence Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility. (Sustainability) SUSTAINABILITY MUST BE BUILT IN, NOT BOLTED ON At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective (sustainable), then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly. Sustainability Empiricism Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential. Sustainability Solution and NFR Business iabilit Human Desirabilit Te hnolog Feasabilit Design Thin ing Business iabilit Human Desirabilit Te hnolog Feasabilit Smart Design Sustainabilit Cir ularit Source: https://www.threebility.com/
- 32. We are uncoveringbetter sustainable ways of living this planet, using Agile in doing so, leading by example and helping others do it. A G I L E F O R S U S T A I N A B I L I T Y D E C L A R A T I O N O F I N T E N T We want to envision long-term and execute fast on a daily basis to help preserving the environment and serve our clients at best We want to leverage inter-dependencies to foster collaborative generation of sustainabile value We want to promote win-win relationships to build networks of responsible people to accelerate value creation We want to face complexity by adopting empiricism to get rid off linear thinking and any biases to reduce waste We want to design for collective intelligence to sense for any weak signals and help addressing any wicked problems We want to design and launch diverse and autonomous teams able to develop sustainable solutions This is where we want to start from today onward; doing our part to support the environment, so that those who will come after us will find the same wonderful planet we have been able to enjoy since now Source: Agile Triathele Blog -https://www.emilianosoldi.it/
- 33. THANK YOU! Emiliano Soldi AgileTriathlete https://www.EmilianoSoldi.it VincenzoLanza https://medium.com/@enzomelke GOAL 1: No Poverty GOAL 2: Zero Hunger GOAL 3: Good Health and Well-being GOAL 4: Quality Education GOAL 5: Gender Equality GOAL 6: Clean Water and Sanitation GOAL 7: Affordable and Clean Energy GOAL 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth GOAL 9: Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure GOAL 10: Reduced Inequality GOAL 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption & Production GOAL 13: Climate Action GOAL 14: Life Below Water GOAL 15: Life on Land GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions GOAL 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal UNDP SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS sdgs.un.org/goals