 So we have Jutta here today. She will be talking about a very important topic that is taking responsibility of our carbon footprint. Thank you so much for the introduction and welcome everyone to this. Yeah, as you said, really super important session, at least I think I want to talk about the topic that the planet really sense in the SOS. And I imagine that some of you know me as a speaker, as an author of well the many books that you see there, like, for example, the first one. Now I have to check out I think this one is my first one that which wasn't on scaling agile and I published that back in 2004. I will talk a little bit but only a little bit about the latest one which is company wide agility. It's on Nova as well, but on the other hand, this is mainly a really new topic and as I said, it really is to my heart. And what that means, well, I want to share a little bit about me that you might not know you again you might know me as author speaker, but you might not know for example that back in the 80s. And I have a few years under my belt here. I protested against acid rain and forest die back and unfortunately without much success because just in May, a new report on the on the forest has been released and they're, they found out that 80% of all trees in Germany, this is my home country, actually damaged and this picture that I'm sharing here is a picture that I took from a hike which is close by where I'm living and really if you go there, you see like almost all trees are damaged or even dead already. The other thing is that I'm also a passionate scuba diver and as as that passion drinks with it is that I'm really concerned about various forecasts, for example, by 2050, it is projected that there will be more plastic in the sea than the fish. And already by 2030 people to check that probably all coral reefs are damaged. And so this really concerns me. Moreover, another thing you might not know that next to that I'm an engineer and I'm in software and doing all this agile stuff for many, many years. I'm also trained as a pollution control commissioner on ecological environmentalism. However, I am certified in that I'm trading that it's been a long time ago that I did that and I never really practice that. But this is kind of the background that I'm bringing. Now, before I start into the topic I would like to know from you. What do you think connects actual and sustainability and I just put the link to the mentee also in the chat so it's easier for you to get there but if you just go there like to mentee.com and you use that code for 5720156 and you just put in a word kind of how you see the connection between sustainability and agile. And if you don't see any connection, then this is fine as well then you might say exactly this. And because I'm a bit uncertain if the refresh on the slide works, I want to see if, if maybe it works better here. And the direct connection so again if you go, yeah, see, we have already not sure if there's a connection which is really a valid thing, then responding to change is a thing here. Reducing waste, you could even think of maybe Kanban, Muda, avoiding waste and so on. It's perhaps more on a meta level but still then reaction time that might be needed. I wait a little bit more maybe some of you get some other ideas we have for people responding so far. So if you go there to mentee.com and I believe there was one person joining late here's also the direct link again. And perhaps we get a few more answers. And again, I'm not sure it's absolutely fine to see no connection. Sustainable pays here is the word even that that's making that connection fail fast learn fast those go together then outcomes. Oh, and responding to change so it's, it's a lot about, yeah, change it seems sustainable pays are standing out more. This is kind of the thing that you're seeing now I wonder did I miss something. It's complexity domain and navigating uncertainty those two definitely go together. And for sure, this is a huge thing that actually that we can bring to the field. Well, so say positive impact and value to the world system thinking might also go to one way of addressing complexity. So thank you so much. This is excellent and you can keep answering this we will keep your answers in here. And I would like to. Well, first of all, because because that question was honestly a bit a little bit unfair. I didn't really define sustainability yet. So therefore I would like to provide a definition so what is actually sustainability. And there is like one very general definition that's pretty well known. It comes from the print and commission. And it's probably the oldest definition that's out there for sustainability and at the call it says whatever we do right now for fulfilling our needs we have to keep in mind that future generations are also enabled to meet their own needs so that we are never living on the cause of future generations. So this is a kind of the most foundational, perhaps also basic but super important definition of sustainability. However, it's also very cost grade. There's also much finer grain one which is the another one from the United Nations so the print and commission was also United Nations so this one is kind of known as well it defines it is defined by the 17 sustainable development goals. And you see it's talking about for example here. No poverty, zero hunger but also like my scuba diving passion thing the life below water, life on land, all kinds of things. And some people say that, well maybe the printer commissions definition as way to cause crane and the 17 sustainable development goal. It might be to find great especially if we think about what we are doing we are developing software and how does it connect to us. Therefore, the definition that I'm using and I find the most helpful is the one that's defined on three pillars and here I'm showing already the first pillar, which is called social sometimes to refer to people as well. The first is that aiming for equity health and livability. The second pillar is the thing that we often have mostly in mind if we think of sustainability, which is the environment or planet so it's about protecting the planet. The third one is the one that probably is most often ignored. It's economic or profit. What it's about is, it's like, we should aim for improving the lives and prospects of everyone everywhere and sustainability is really defined by all of these three pillars that sits really in the middle and this more holistic approach. Now, already I want to kind of peek at some of the things because you will get more into details later, but for example the social people aspect that really also looks like we're talking about equity, of course, also about diversity and inclusion, and we do talk about that in Agile as well, right. So, this is kind of the broad definition that I like to go with, and it's nothing really new or whatever. It is basically capturing or categorizing those 17 sustainable development goals in those three different pillars. Now, okay, we are talking about software here and very often what people think is that software actually comes to the rescue. And that is true for example with ebooks we are saving trees so with now having this online conference that nobody's traveling anymore anywhere so we are saving also or minimizing our carbon footprint, then also if you think about various developments like on supply chain or water management or whatever it is often software that makes it more efficient. So that's very true. However, you could also ask really software to the rescue and software also has a downside and there are various forecasts one of them is that one that's mentioned the most often, which is a forecast stating that by 2030. That's not too far away. We will actually consume 21% of the overall energy consumption. So this is quite something. So it's not that we are kind of only coming to the rescue, we also come with a carbon footprint and the V is of course in quotes so whatever we are doing on it. That's one thing. Another thing is actually that whole topic about electronic waste. And there is an electronic waste monitor produced every five years also by the United Nations. The last one was produced in or created in 2020. So we looked up to the year 2019. And what you see there is that in 2019 53.6 million tons of electronic waste were generated worldwide and it's a blast from compared to the last monitor. E-Waste monitor, it's a blast of 21%, which is quite a lot. And yes, you could think of, well, this is hardware and I'll be most of us actually doing something in software. That's very true. But if I think of, for example, here my phone, very often I am buying a new phone or any other kind of hardware, because the software is not supported is not supporting the hardware anymore. So the software doesn't really run well on the hardware, therefore I throw out the hardware, although it's not broken. But because the software isn't really running in an efficient effective way anymore. And so it is again IT and software that's maybe having that responsibility of creating that electronic waste. I would now like to dive into those three piters, remember like environmental, social and economic and provide a few examples of what that means if we are looking in IT. And some examples are positive, others are negative. We start with a maybe positive example. So in the environmental spectrum, the thing is that most of the software that we are creating is now running in the cloud. And let me first of all make this very clear. This is good, because in the cloud per se, software is running way more efficient and with a smaller carbon footprint than if we would host the software ourselves. So this is good. However, very often we are not looking into how is the cloud platform our software is actually running on? How is that really running? What's the carbon footprint of it? And there is like the positive example that's actually Google, Google started already in 2007 to trying to become carbon neutral. And then in 2017, so 10 years later, they made their next big step and they still keep working on it. So they aim for being 24 seven come through running on come free energy by 2030. So this is good news. And actually, for quite some time, it was really the Google cloud platform only aiming for that. So I would think like two or three years ago, not many more were looking into that topic. However, luckily, this has changed. So all of the cloud platforms are now aiming on that and have seen that this is a topic. However, a big problem is, and this is also with Google, although it's here like the positive example, you might have seen here that this information comes from a Google white paper and they're releasing those five papers also at various times. However, the problem is, they are not making their data transparent. So I know that from the Ministry of environmentalism, what a difficult term, in Germany, they are trying to validate that report that white paper for quite some years from Google and asking for the data and they are not getting it. So one of our responsibility is actually here. On the one hand, really, when we look for an infrastructure also looking at the carbon footprint of that infrastructure, and second on the other hand, that we also ask for more transparency that we create a bit more pressure on the companies that they are really making their stuff transparent. One disclaimer here for all of the examples that I'm giving so here Google is more like the positive example but maybe not so much because they're not making the data transparent. However, my point is here for both the positive and negative examples, it's always the case that none of the companies is like or is positive only or negative only so I just picked some examples that speak to that topic. Well, the that we have that responsibility is has also been seen by the ACM the Association of Computing Machinery and the former editor in chief of the CACM and ACM actually is one of the biggest organizations on it started in the US but it's now an international organization and Andrew Jean again the former editor in chief of the CACM the magazine of the organization said it is time for the computing community to face up to computing this growing environmental impact and take responsibility for it, so it's us. So that was my example on environmentalism now let's go to the next example which is economic and my example here is chef chef is a cloud software I can imagine that some of you know it or use it for your, your systems that you are creating and chef actually suppose so it's the open source cloud software but it's also a company that's called chef that has contracts with various clients and serving them with that cloud software called chef so chef has these two dimensions and chef the company had a contract with ice I stands for immigration customs enforcement and people found out that's a few years ago I think it was in 2018 people found out that the software chef is used by ice to actually manage the deportation camps at the Mexican border I'm not sure if you heard about that but so it was at least in Europe it was big news where the the deportation camps at the at the border to Mexico for example was used for separating the kids from their parents and really very bad stuff and when the developers found out about that they said like well. Our intention was never that the system will be used that way remember that this pillar was defined improving the lives and prospects of everyone everywhere. For sure this didn't happen here. And so they protested and for quite some time nothing happened until the moment when one of the developers. Actually said well it's open source what about if I delete all my contributions to the software. And so he did, and that created so much pressure that this headline that you see on that slide was really created that chef expired the contract with ice. So, again, so the thing is, especially I think often. Well I'm not sure if it's really especially, but I think so in actual where we often think, well the most important thing is to make the client happy. And well, we do, but then we don't take a second look. What is the client actually doing with the system and I think we should, at least at times, take that look as well. The very thing from black rock also black rock is not only good set in his open letter to the CEOs in 2018 that society is actually demanding that companies post public and private serve a social purpose to prosper over time. So it must not only deliver financial performance but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. So, this is again something that we need to do. I want to share also an example on the social pillar. Remember it was on like equity, for example, diversity and inclusion and here's a wonderful example that I found on Twitter. We're surely who wanted to create an account and she couldn't because the last name was expecting at least three characters. And sometimes we just don't think that far. Another example also found on Twitter is those two guys had a video conversation, and then they decided to use a virtual background and what happened well. The video system didn't recognize the face of the dark skin person to be a face. And you know what, I don't think that any of those software teams really did that on purpose. There was no intent that surely we can create an account or that dark skin person can use a virtual background. I think the problem is very often we in our teams are too homogeneous, and we just don't think about other perspectives, other people and one of the things maybe this is already one of my tips is well very often we come up with personas in the actual very think about who's our target client, the main client that we are aiming for with that system and my recommendation is, please at times think about the complete opposite of that target client crew, because you might miss something and really exclude people from using your system, which doesn't mean that you're creating you still have not a persona in mind, but please at times take a look at kind of other people. So, I had a couple of years ago, a podcast on the subject on diversity and inclusion with Jeremy Tregel some of you might know him because he's also been told in India, and there we were talking about this and then I threw out like a sentence on that topic and he said, you know what, I think this has to be x times law, and since then I'm running around and say here's x times law so take this with a little smirk here. So, the law is that I believe an organization produces a design that reflects the organization's biases. So, it is kind of as you might know, a little bit derived from Conway's law but the point is very often we look for people that are like us. And because of that, we have just more like a singular perspective and not a broad few of perspectives. Okay, so we had the definition of sustainability. I also have some examples from the three pillars but perhaps you're thinking, so what does this have to do with the actual now really well, except for perhaps the examples that I gave like the personas are thinking beyond making the client happy. Actually, there is a deeper connection. And I know some of you said when I asked that first question like well I don't really see a connection, which is, I said, a valid thing. However, we made a promise. And if you are looking at the two biggest organizations in the actual role, for example the Scrum Alliance and the actual lines. The Scrum Alliance says that we are on a mission to create actual workplaces that are joyful, prosperous, and there you go, sustainable. The actual alliance has changed that a few times. And what they are saying now is, well, what's kind of what they're doing for their members is through the last two decades, members like you have helped make work more effective, humane, and sustainable by applying the actual mindset and methods. And by the way, the actual alliance even elaborates on this and then says, well, making the world work, the work more sustainable, they really mean it in the sense of the three pillars, so social, environmental, and economic. So this is the one thing. The other thing is, when I work together with John back on my latest book, the company right agility with beyond budgeting open space and so circuitry that was an over. We realized that, well, once a company says they are agile, or even it starts in a smaller scale, when a team says we are agile, it comes with an expectation. Which is in the sense of sustainability, although it might not really be stated really. And, for example, if a team says we are agile and then somebody finds out they are not inclusive, people would say, well, I thought you're actual. And similarly, if a company says we are actual and then people find out they're not paying fairly same thing people would say, I thought you're actual. And that's why John and I took a look at the core principles of actual transparency self organization constant customer and continuous learning and looked into what does that really mean if we are looking at it from a sustainability perspective or what does it mean if we are fulfilling that perhaps hidden expectations, for example, for transparency is about making the companies actions transparent, both internally and externally. So that would speak for example for Google to make those data also transparent. Self organization where we look more into that we are actually just a note of a global network and we are responsible for the environment we are living in and we are creating also that environment together with other companies and societal institutions. So if we look at constant customer focus, then actually let me translate that for you right away. The way I use that the most often right now when I work with teams is saying like, Oh, if we look at that feature. What about if the planet would be a stakeholder. So regarding the planet also as a customer as a stakeholder that often opens up completely different discussion. Then we have continuous learning, where it's about learning continuously from and with society to make the whole world a better place. So this is our responsibility. And perhaps now is the time where you wonder, Okay, I got that you tell but now what can I really do. And there are several things you can do and it starts with like using sustainability by agile that means that we are using agile practices and mindset to help solve the climate crisis to improve sustainability. There is, I have an example here from a colleague of mine Nicole billy loss who used her skills for increasing sustainability by acting as a scrum master for an organization that's called heck your future originally created in the Netherlands I believe they are now available at in different countries but there are also other organizations doing stuff like that. And she served as a scrum master for refugees and the idea for of heck your future is that refugees have a possibility to show their skills that especially their it skills to get a job. And in this case those refugees also created a food saver app so it's like double sided really good and Nicole just provided her agile practices mindset skills to help them to just do that so this is sustainability by agile. You can also do and I want to dive a little bit deeper perhaps into this as well as things thinking of sustainability in agile, which is that we use sustainability to guide our actions and outcomes in agile development. One example could be that your definition of done also looks at the energy consumption of your system that when you deliver your next story that at least the energy consumption doesn't increase, maybe it even gets smaller. I would like you to now take a survey. So I have here that to our code but also want to share perhaps the link in in the chat. Where I would like to ask you to take that survey. So we see where we are actually standing right now with sustainability and agile. So it's really a quick thing there are not too many questions but it would be wonderful if you would start and answer those questions so we get an idea what is actually happening right now with sustainability. And so, again, I ask you to go there, take the survey I know that it takes a little bit to do that. And let's see. And, by the way, so I made that much smaller that survey. Normally it has way more questions and I will provide you the link later on so you can use it with your team and learn where you and hopefully start having a conversation on that super important topic. Maybe now should shut up. Let you answer the survey. And so, we only had three questions on each of each of the spectrums environmental economic and social. We see that, well, social seems to be the thing that has the highest values. Maybe we first look at the craft so you see it here also social goes really further out than environmental and this is not a surprise because this is kind of the thing we are starting at right now only. Perhaps I want to first go back and let's see we do another refresh perhaps we have a new data point in. Oh, two more data points very good. And I would also like to see how far away are we from each other or I'll be more in agreement. So, what we see here. For example, let's first look also here at the oops. Yeah, at the social part that's actually good that I didn't like this is that for the first question, the team prevents discrimination disrespecting or targeting of team members. We are really much in agreement here in this crew so most people voted four or five. And the next question which says like we are statement we continue to work to prevent bad actors from accessing or using any start user data. There's quite some agreement however there's like perhaps one one outlier. But it's kind of all of those questions are quite together. So this is good and it is also, which means it says something very outstanding. So if I look on the other hand here on the environmental sector. Then we see the answers are all over the place let's look at this so one says, the team monitor Sahabra utilization of the product both in use as well as while idle, then we have three saying the team monitor, three saying it's a fall. And we have one saying it's more false than true that we are doing this and to saying this is completely false we are not doing this. So, the thing, but you see in this heat map is how far we spreading and again here we are closer together let me do another refresh to see if there are more data in perhaps know we are seven. Let's perhaps also take a look in the economic spectrum and perhaps let's take a router for that. And it is like the, the one top topic. The team response problem problem and security gaps vulnerabilities become known. That's quite high. It's also not a surprise because security is a topic. We are looking at for quite some time now. And it's not so new. It might be surprising that this is really part of sustainability. Well, because we want to improve the lives and prospect of everyone everywhere and we don't want to do any harm right and this is what it is. Then the thing that's really low here is. Well, is it no this is, yeah, which is the team knows which features are really used actually this is something that's quite typical that I'm seeing that often well we get asked that this is super important let's build those features that those stories have to get delivered, but then later on nobody really checks if they are really used so we might create more ways than we actually know. Let's take perhaps a quick other look into whatever, maybe the holistic, maybe the holistic would be interesting as well. So, the thing we are highest is the product service contributes to create a social economic and environmental balance but this is really great. No, I'm really interested. Let me quickly go back here and see that heat map. So that was the thing. So we have two saying true, three saying more true than false and then we have one and one. Okay, but it's not that fast prep. This is interesting, very good. And also this one was the one we were looking to there we are really close together that's excellent actually. And then we see in the we prior to as a planet as one of the stakeholders. I guess that's a really a new thing. And that's why it's all over the place so we have answers in all categories here. Let me go back. And one of the things that you also can look at and I again I give you the link so you can use that with your team and look where you're standing is you see also like the highest course or where you have the biggest deviation or key opportunities so this might be interesting. And I know before we are getting all nervous I'm going back and I want to share with you like why are we doing this. The thing is, looking at sustainability and taking that responsibility. So what does that mean for us so what what can we do is actually it means that we change our conversations. Really for increasing sustainability. And I know I use up almost all the time so I want to thank you here want to provide some links here the business link with actual sustainability is the one that you can use with your team and answering those questions and again they are way more questions than just those and you can use that and find out what are actually the next questions you want to ask and what kind of dialogue you want to get started with. And I want to share also that link here in the chat. So thank you and I'm really curious if there are any questions and I know we are out of time almost we have one more minute maybe there are some questions and otherwise I will be in the hang out and stop sharing so Alright everyone I mean if you have questions for Judah that now is the right time to ask her and thanks Judah for sharing your experience with us today.