This document discusses using agile principles and practices to address sustainability challenges. It suggests applying definitions of done that consider environmental impacts and using retrospectives to increase awareness and reduce carbon footprints. Agile methods like sprints could help organizations tackle the climate crisis. The document advocates understanding and protecting the planet, aiming for equity and health, and improving lives. It provides examples of agile teams helping with food waste and supporting refugees. Overall, it presents agile and sustainability as complementary approaches to solving important problems.

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What?

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Sustainability
Human/People
Aiming for equity, health,
liveability
Environment/Planet
Protecting the Planet
Economic/Profit
Improving the lives &
prospects of everyone,
everywhere

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So What?

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Agile made a Promise!

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Now What?

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Sustainability in Agile
◼ Sustainability in Agile
– Use sustainability to guide your actions and outcomes in agile
development
◼ For example:
– Have a definition of done that verifies that the energy
consumption of your system does (at least) not increase
– Inform the user about how to use the system resource-
efficiently
– When outsourcing, consider impact and/or ethical outsourcing

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Sustainability by Agile
◼ Sustainability by Agile:
– Agile practices & mindset will be used (across industries) to
help solve the climate crisis
◼ For example:
– Offer retrospectives for increasing awareness and reducing the
carbon footprint
– Use your skills for increasing sustainability
• E.g., as part of HackYourFuture, Nicole Belilos was a SM for
refugees creating a food saver app

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This is an Emergency!
Source:
Photo:
Benjamin
Bindewald
On
Unsplash

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This is an Emergency!
Source:
https://climateactiontracker.org/global/temperatures/

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That’s problem #1,
life is chaotic and messy and
unpredictable.
The Good Place

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That’s problem #1,
life is chaotic and messy and
unpredictable.
The Good Place
Make a quick list of Agile tools,
practices, and methods that you might
use together with people addressing the
climate crisis.

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Meeting the penguin ambassadors with
Shanet Rutgers at Two Oceans Aquarium
Cape Town, South Africa
Source:
Two
Oceans
Aquarium,
Cape
Town,
South
Africa

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Now What?

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Sustainability
Human/People
Aiming for equity, health,
liveability
Environment/Planet
Protecting the Planet
Economic/Profit
Improving the lives &
prospects of everyone,
everywhere

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In the end, we will conserve only
what we love, we will love only
what we understand, and we will
understand only what we are
taught.
Baba Dioum

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In the end, we will conserve only
what we love, we will love only
what we understand, and we will
understand only what we are
taught.
Baba Dioum
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What do you love
enough to save?

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That‘s what Jutta loves enough…

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Steve Holyer | @zurcherart
hhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/steveholyer/
https://engageresults.com
Jutta Eckstein | @JuttaEckstein
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein
https://JEckstein.com/sustainability
Many Thanks
Contact us. We’d like to continue the conversation,
and tell you more about our work.

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The Two Oceans Aquarium Education
Foundation is a registered non-profit, public
benefit organization, with a focus on ocean
conservation, awareness, research, and
education in South Africa.
Learn More:
https://aquariumfoundation.org.za/
We’d like to tell you about these organizations who are important to us for the important work
they do. You can learn more about them and even make a donation to support their work.
Jutta says, “I choose Gaia Education because
they believe that education is the biggest tool in
the fight for a more regenerative future and
reversing the climate crisis. I’m currently
participating in one of their education programs.”
Learn More:
https://www.gaiaeducation.org/

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Steve also recommends these
organizations:
Southern African Foundation for the
Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB)
The WILDOCEANS programme
We invite you to support local organizations making a difference
regarding sustainabiliy.
Jutta also recommends these organizations:
Coders without Borders
Greenpeace