(Scroll down for links with inspiration, resources and scientific studies about IT carbon footprint) Our environmental challenges Scientists urge us to be climate-neutral by 2050. In order to reach that goal we must cut carbon emissions by at least 55% in 2030. This leaves us with just 7 years to drastically alter our pathway: we will have to cut our carbon emissions at a revolutionary speed. Every IT team needs to turn the lens on...
Background In the past couple of months I dived into the topic of sustainability for scrum teams. Because I, like so many people inside (and outside) of my teams, am looking for ways to help the climate. We started with a Planet Retrospective about Green Software, in which we defined the first steps towards reducing the carbon footprint of our IT landscape. Setting the stage with the Planet Check In But before we started with...
What would we do differently if we treated Planet Earth as our stakeholder? My scrum teams and I are looking for ways to become more sustainable and reduce our IT carbon footprint. In this planet retrospective we asked ourselves the above question and dived into the topic of green software engineering to find answers and practical ideas on how to reduce our carbon footprint as a scrum team. We started with a Planet Check In...
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Watch my conversation with Joanne Stone about helping our teams to reduce their carbon footprint when developing.
