Sustainability: Delivering Agility's Promise

TL;DR

This paper examines how agile development can contribute to sustainability across social, economic, and environmental dimensions, highlighting the gap between promise and delivery and providing real-world company examples.

Contribution

It analyzes the Agile Manifesto's potential to promote sustainability and presents case studies of companies integrating agility with sustainability efforts.

Findings

Agile can support sustainability in social, economic, and environmental areas.

There is a significant gap between the sustainability promise and actual delivery.

Case studies show companies successfully integrating agility with sustainability initiatives.

Abstract

Sustainability is a promise by agile development, as it is part of both the Agile Alliance's and the Scrum Alliance's vision. Thus far, not much has been delivered on this promise. This paper explores the Agile Manifesto and points out how agility could contribute to sustainability in its three dimensions - social, economic, and environmental. Additionally, this paper provides some sample cases of companies focusing on both sustainability (partially or holistically) and agile development.