The world is on fire! None of our improvements in software development will matter at all if we can’t change the course of the climate crisis. The software lifecycle creates direct and indirect carbon emissions: it has a footprint, worsening environmental problems. 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 to gain a holistic perspective of your team 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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Let’s get more –social, environmental, and
economic– sustainability based on data!
Jutta Eckstein
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What is your connection to
sustainability?

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Purpose & Goal
◼ Agility comes with responsibility!
◼ We can use data
– to increase our awareness and
– to define our next steps!
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Agenda
What?
Welcome & set the stage
Defining & connecting
sustainability
So what?
Connecting to agility
Now what? Gathering & analyzing data

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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

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Software to the Rescue!?
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©
Nature.
Jones,
N.:
How
to
stop
data
centres
from
gobbling
up
the
world‘s
electricity

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Created by Paul Bonomini
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Our Individual Digital Carbon Footprint
◼ https://www.digitalcarbonfootprint.eu/

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Each year the internet and
its supporting systems
produce more than 900
million tons of CO2!
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https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/green-cloud

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Chef & Homeland Security
©
https://www.fedscoop.com/protest-open-source-software-
company-chef-will-let-ice-contract-expire/
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Agenda
What?
Welcome & set the stage
Defining & connecting
sustainability
So what?
Connecting to agility
Now what? Gathering & analyzing data
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Agile made a Promise!

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©https://www.agilealliance.org/membership
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https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-sustainability-initiative/

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©
agilebossanova.com
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Agenda
What?
Welcome & set the stage
Defining & connecting
sustainability
So what?
Connecting to agility
Now what? Gathering & analyzing data

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Sustainability by Agile / IT
◼ Use agile practices & mindset to help solve the climate crisis
◼ For example:
– 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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Sustainability in Agile / IT
◼ 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
– Run regularly a “Planet as a Stakeholder”-Retrospective

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Where do we stand?
Here’s the data, we collected!
https://bit.ly/ACCU-2023
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Change your Conversations
for
Increasing Sustainability!

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Many Thanks!
◼ @agilealliance.social@JuttaEckstein
◼ @JuttaEckstein
◼ https://www.linkedin.com/in/juttaeckstein
◼ https://jeckstein.com/sustainability
◼ https://agilebossanova.com
◼ Assessment by
– https://bit.ly/agile-sustainability