Category: Growing Green

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Planetary challenges – opening the conversation

Background Over the past couple of years I’ve worked with many teams to help integrate climate awareness (and action!) into their daily work. Leading many of these sessions I learned how important it is to address the strong feelings people have about our planetary challenges, before diving into any of the work. Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution…. Themes that can make your heart sink. Or themes that you don’t want to face because of the...

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Workshop ‘Planet Earth as Our Stakeholder’ (updated version)

How it started A few years ago, while searching for a meaningful way to act on climate change, I started to wonder: what if I brought a sustainability perspective into my own Agile teams? I delved into the topic of sustainable IT and started with a Planet Retrospective for my Scrum team, working through the Principles of Green Software Engineering. We talked about what steps our team could take to reduce the carbon footprint of...

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Planet as Stakeholder @Agile2024

This past July, I traveled to Dallas to give a talk about “The Planet as a Stakeholder” at the Agile2024 conference, hosted by Agile Alliance. What an experience it was to be at such a large conference and to be able to contribute! Earlier this year, I submitted a proposal for a talk at the Agile2024 conference. As I often submit proposals to conferences, I honestly didn’t expect it to be accepted and had almost...

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Climate Change and IT: Agile Teams Can Make a Difference

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 a few 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 itself and ask: ‘how are we impacting the planet, and what can we...

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Growing Green / Retrospective

The ‘Planet as a Stakeholder’ Retrospective

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. Inspired by Jutta Eckstein‘s notion of ‘prioritizing the planet as one of the stakeholders’ we asked ourselves the above question. We delved into the topic of green software engineering to find answers and practical ideas on how to reduce our carbon footprint as...