The term Digital Transformation in the last decade or so has become a well-known strategy in various organizations. Businesses across every domain are reviving their traditional businesses to adapt to a more modern digital marketplace.
But in the last few years, sustainable development has become one of the essential mainstays for a successful digital transformation journey. The Covid pandemic has also pushed organizations across different domains to rethink and emphasize environmental factors, climate changes, and human well-being to lure consumers.
Embracing a cloud-first model is one of the critical constituents in digital transformation and sustainable journeys. More and more organizations are speeding up their Cloud computing journeys and investing in modern SaaS/PaaS services, thus reducing environmental impacts and eliminating major infrastructure expenses. Organizations need to be wary and invest wisely in sustainable software-building methodologies for successful software implementations and cloud migrations seamlessly.
Organizations that strive to be data-driven have a better ability to monitor operations and analyze system behaviors accurately. The real-time analysis of information results in better usage of devices and improves the defined sustainable characteristics. Companies that invest in AI/ ML can have a very substantial benefit to sustainability. The science of reliable predictability in the digital realm can bridge gaps in system information interchange, zero wastages, improve storage and distribution mechanisms, eco-friendly products, free delivery methods, reusable infrastructure, etc. All of these can directly help in subduing environmental consequences.
In conclusion, the principles of building next-generation Digital software and Sustainable development go hand in hand. In the modern agile world, both of these journeys have a common goal of not jeopardizing the capability of future needs. These can be applied to systems as much as they can be related to human well-being. Adaptable working methods of Extreme Programming, Agile, Lean, Kanban help teams to strive for rapidly focused executions. These ways of organization working improve distributed system communications, their collaborations, their usages, and velocity. All of these indirectly result in contributing to energy-efficient software development.