Digital Cleanup Gathering – Improving the State of Sustainability in Agile

Online Session • Friday, March 7 • 11-12 am EST / 5-6 pm CET

Do you know that the Internet and its supporting systems produce more than 900 million tons of CO2 each year? Digital Cleanup Day, recognized worldwide by organizations and individuals, addresses this by encouraging people every year to start cleaning up their digital environment. 

Like last year, the Agile Sustainability Initiative invites you to gather with like-minded people for the “Digital Cleanup Gathering.” This year, we will learn from Lisa Crispin and Allison Lazarz about how the art of a trash sort could save us (and our team) money, while also saving the planet!

Join us for this hands-on session on how to assess and reduce both our physical and digital waste. In this workshop, we’ll see how an effective process for at-home trash sorting can be applied to cleaning up digital waste. By applying agile principles to the process, we’ll see how easy it is to reduce waste iteratively. Then we’ll discover how to apply those same principles to digital waste, freeing up server space to save energy and money. It’s a win-win for our budget and the planet!

Let’s roll up our sleeves and learn from Lisa and Allison how to eliminate our digital waste!

Registration is free and open to everyone.

Meet our Speakers and Hosts

Allison Lazarz, Speaker

Allison Lazarz lives and works in Vermont, USA. She’s been a software tester with Cox Automotive for over 11 years, holding various testing roles. Her current title is Software Test Engineer. She focuses on writing and implementing test plans and using JavaScript-based testing frameworks to write automated tests when possible. In addition to a passion for software testing, she also has a passion for sustainability. She’s constantly looking for ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and has recently started applying these concepts to digital waste as well!

Lisa Crispin, Speaker

Lisa Crispin is an independent consultant, author, and speaker based in Vermont, USA. Together with Janet Gregory, she co-authored several books, including Holistic Testing: Weave Quality Into Your Product, and the LiveLessons “Agile Testing Essentials” video course. She and Janet also co-founded a training company offering live courses worldwide. Lisa uses her long experience working as a tester on high-performing agile teams to help organizations assess and improve their quality and testing practices, and succeed with continuous delivery. She’s a DORA Guide for the DORA community of practice. Please visit lisacrispin.com, agiletester.ca, agiletestingfellow.com, or LinkedIn for details and contact information.

Maryse Meinen, Host

Maryse Meinen is a product manager, working in IT infrastructure, together with an awesome team. She is weaving sustainability in all that she does, also in her work in product development, because if we don’t… nothing else will matter. Looking for ways to develop products more sustainably (in the whole value chain) the radical economic theory of Degrowth and the idea of “doing more with less” caught her attention. She is now applying these principles practically in her way of working. Maryse is also an active practitioner of Stoic philosophy, which aligns neatly with sustainability principles because it advocates “wanting what you already have” (instead of striving to have all that you want). Email Maryse here.