Sustainability: Delivering Agility's Promise
It addresses the gap in delivering sustainability in agile practices for software development and organizational management, but is incremental as it builds on existing frameworks.
The paper examines how agile development can fulfill its promise of sustainability by analyzing the Agile Manifesto and its potential contributions to social, economic, and environmental dimensions, with examples from companies integrating both.
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.