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Develop Sustainable Software with a Lean ISO 14001 Setup Facilitated by the efiS® Framework

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Lean and Agile Software Development (LASD 2022)

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This article suggests the design and application of a systematic approach to establish the ISO 14001 in the context of software systems. It covers the different phases of the software life-cycle with focus on sustainability. For each phase, it proposes principles and methods for specific software product instantiations of the ISO 14001. The presented approach is embeddedable into the efiS® framework - the agile framework for lean enterprises - as Level of Done (LoD) layer building block to scale the approach. The possibility of rigorous refinement of the enterprise sustainability goals to the specific software for products and services helps to find adequate trade-offs during development and delivery. Additionally, the approach can be used to establish a sustainability governance for IT and software based products and services. Furthermore, an instantiation as an example of the proposed approach on a hybrid-cloud service of the Volkswagen Group IT is presented.

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Poth, A., Nunweiler, E. (2022). Develop Sustainable Software with a Lean ISO 14001 Setup Facilitated by the efiS® Framework. In: Przybyłek, A., Jarzębowicz, A., Luković, I., Ng, Y.Y. (eds) Lean and Agile Software Development. LASD 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94238-0_6

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