According to one forecast, IT will account for 21% of global energy consumption by 2030. If we don't change the way we implement software, we will contribute to increasing the carbon footprint. So, it's time to examine how agility can help to reduce energy consumption and ensure greater - environmental, social & economic - sustainability. The point is not to pursue sustainability for altruistic reasons, but to understand that over time, sustainability is also becoming a key factor that determines the success of companies, both in the search for talent and for customers and markets. In this session, inspect real data and gain a holistic perspective of your team’s or company’s current situation regarding agile sustainability. Comparative Agile Sustainability is an approach that we created in a small team with the support of data analysts that serves to anchor and promote the awareness of sustainability in an (agile) team and/or company. The evaluation was published under creative commons and is therefore freely available to all interested parties. By using the results of this validated assessment, agile teams and organizations can better understand how they can increase their own effectiveness and contribute to increasing sustainability across the industry.

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Agile Sustainability:
Let’s get more – social, environmental & economic –
sustainability based on data!
Jutta Eckstein
Pollution Control Commissioner on Ecological Environmentalism
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Agenda
What? Facts So what? Insights
Now what? This is what you can do!

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©
Nature.
Jones,
N.:
How
to
stop
data
centres
from
gobbling
up
the
world‘s
electricity
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Sustainability
Social/People
Aiming for equity, health,
liveability
Environment/Planet
Protecting the Planet
Economic/Prosperity
Improving the lives &
prospects of everyone,
everywhere
Diversity
Safety, Security & Privacy
Green software
CO2 reduction
Sustainable Economies
Responsible products
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Sustainability
Social/People
Environment/Planet
Economic/Prosperity
In 2019, 53.6 million metric tonnes
of electronic waste was generated
worldwide (that’s plus 21% in 5 years.)
This is an equivalent of almost 5,400
Eiffel towers.

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Our Individual Digital Carbon Footprint
◼ https://www.digitalcarbonfootprint.eu/
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Agenda
What? Facts So what? Insights
Now what? This is what you can do!

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Agile Sustainability
Sustainability
IN Agile
Sustainability
BY Agile
Use agile practices &
mindset to help solve
the climate crisis
Use sustainability to
guide your actions
& outcomes in agile
development
Sustainability as a quality
attribute in the DoD & as
acceptance criteria!

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Agenda
What? Facts So what? Insights
Now what? This is what you can do!
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Persona Spectrum
Source:
©David
Dame,
Microsoft,
https://bit.ly/3EYNdXk
◼ Make your system accessible
to everyone!

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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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Fonts Excursion
Source: Lukasz Jedrasiak: https://bit.ly/fontsImpactOnCarbonFootprint
Source: https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there

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Supporting Older Hardware
◼ Sustainability Toggles
– Deactivate non-supported features
◼ Responsive Design
– Recognize supported functionality on actual client
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Feature Toggles
Source:
Pete
Hodgson
https://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
Sustainability
Toggles

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Energy Aware Operations
◼ Understand when
– Low-carbon electricity is available
– Energy mix is renewable
◼ Execute operations asynchronously at
environmentally friendly times, like
– Tests
– Non critical jobs
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Data Centre / Cloud Provider

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Where do we stand?
Let’s gather data!
Full
assessment
under
(cc):
https://bit.ly/agile-sustainability
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Change your Conversations
for
Increasing Sustainability!

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Many Thanks!
◼ @agilealliance.social@JuttaEckstein
◼ https://www.linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein
◼ https://bit.ly/agile-sustainability
◼ https://jeckstein.com/sustainability
◼ https://agilebossanova.com
◼ And join:
– LinkedIn group: https://bit.ly/Agilists4Sustainability
– https://bit.ly/AA-sustainability-initiative