Green BA for Environmental Sustainability Reydan Çankur Sony Eurasia Expert Business Analyst

Agenda • Environmental Issues

• IT Impact on Environmental Issues

• Green IT

• Green IS

• Business Analyst Activities

• Green BA

Environmental Issues

AIR POLLUTION

GLOBAL WARMING

OVERPOPULATION

NATURAL RESOURCE DEPLETION

WASTE DISPOSAL

CLIMATE CHANGE

LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY

DEFORESTATION

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

OZONE LAYER DEPLETION

ACID RAIN

WATER POLLUTION

URBAN SPRAWL

PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES

GENETIC ENGINEERING

Natural Causes • Volcanic activity • Solar output/radiation • Earth’s orbit around the Sun • Ocean currents

Human Causes • Burning of fossil fuels • Increased population • Greenhouse gas emissions • Industrial processes

IT Impact on Environmental Issues

IT Impact on Environmental Issues • One of major areas that creates environmental issues

• Energy consumption estimation by 2020 >> 15% of total consumption

• ICT accounted for approx. 2% of Global CO2 emissions

Total Emissions Cause

Energy Req. Of PCand MonitorsFixed & MobileTelecommunicationsData Centres

Other

Green IT & Green IS

Green IT • design for environmental sustainability;

• energy-efficient computing;

• power management;

• data centre efficiency;

• responsible disposal and recycling of IT resources;

• compliance with green regulations and internal policies;

• green metrics, assessment tools, and methodology;

• environment-related risk mitigation;

• use of renewable energy sources; and

• eco-labeling of IT products.

Green IS • Environmental management information

systems (EMIS),

• Tools to monitor, audit and report parameters like greenhouse gas emissions;

• Cloud computing;

• Building sustainable business practices;

• Geographic Information Systems;

• Environmental metadata standards;

• Environmental planning tools.

Business Analyst Activities

Green Business Analyst

Enhancing Non-functional Requirements

Enhancing Non-functional Requirements

• Adding Green Requirements • Low&renewable energy

consumption criteria for analyzed application

• Placing IT equipments in Green Data Centres

• 3 R’s of environment: Reduce, Reuse & Recyle

• Follow-up law, legislation

Cloud Computing & Virtualization

• Cloud Computing • Recyclability • Lower carbon emissions • Decrease costs

• Virtualization • Pay-per use >> use only needed • Reduce e-waste • Reduce energy consumption

Application & Data Efficiency

• Performance • Run faster • Use less computing resources

• Data de-duplication • Prevent redundant data • Reduce storage needs • Reduce data traffic

Agile Methodology

• Agile Best Practices • Produce more with less failure • Increase predictability • Correct estimations

• Test Automation • Light testing

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