Why is the toolkit written in English?

While the rest of the material on this site is in Norwegian, we decided to write the toolkit in English for the following reasons: Most of the scholarly articles that we build upon are in English, and many terms lack an established Norwegian equivalent. We have several members who are multi-national companies. It is of…

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Sustainability analysis diagram

V PA3 The sustainability analysis diagram is an approach to help taking into account the different sustainability dimensions when analyzing requirements to a software system.  Executive Summary The sustainability analysis diagram/framework is an approach to consider sustainability dimensions when analyzing requirements for systems and services. It is often referred to as a sosio-technical analysis, and…

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«Minimal Vialble product» – please comment!

This is a beta release of the toolkit, where a portion of the artifacts are peer-reviewed. We are eager to get feedback, so that we match the needs in the workforce and academia. You will discover that there is a variety of completeness in the material. We hope for constructive feedback.

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Insight through inquiry

In order to understand how to best serve our audience, a group of design professionals have undertaken interviews with people in two of our target audiences in the workforce and academia: Chief Sustainability Officers in and those who design Programmes of Study. This resulted in a report published in Norwegian in October 2022.

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Sustainability frameworks and indicators

Version PA3 The triple bottom line (also noted as TBL or 3BL) is an accounting framework with three parts: social, environmental (or ecological) and financial, which are the same sustainability dimensions that are alluded to in the Brundtland-definition. The sustainable development goals (SDG) or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed…

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Requirement Management for Sustainability

Version PA2 Open Up before Narrow Down – and Systems Thinking What sets sustainable software development apart from traditional methods, is that we need to take into account that “The system” does not exist in a vacuum, but interacts with the environment and other systems. This suggests that we need to have elements of “Systems…

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Introducing the Sustainability Competence toolkit

The Sustainability Competence Toolkit (Hereafter “the Toolkit”) is one of the major undertakings of GoForIT. The ambition of the authors is to solve two systemic problems for operational sustainability in the industry and the society at large: While it is commonly known what sustainability is, and why we need to change our ways, professionals don’t…

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System Designers and Developers

Version: PA1 General profile description  In this context, the responsibility of System Designers and Developers is to design and construct Information Technology Systems that meet internal and/or external requirements, and need to communicate with Product Owners.  A System Designer needs to devise a solution architecture, and set the development standards for the solution, while a…

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