Sustainable Software Development: An ADKAR-Based Framework for Project Managers and Teams

Yassine Talas, Hajer Rabii

2025

Abstract

This ongoing preliminary research addresses the growing need for environmentally conscious practices in Information Technology (IT), specifically in software development. It aims to develop a generic framework for sustainable software development (SSD) tailored to IT project managers and teams, through leveraging the ADKAR change management model and its five pillars (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement). This work combines two complementary research methodologies: interviews and participatory action research. The current findings include the overall structure of the framework and suggest an alignment of the proposed framework with the Agile project management methodology. Further research is under progress to develop the detailed content of the framework, and test it. The main contribution expected from this work is to promote the democratization of sustainable practices in software development.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Talas Y. and Rabii H. (2025). Sustainable Software Development: An ADKAR-Based Framework for Project Managers and Teams. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-742-9, SciTePress, pages 643-651. DOI: 10.5220/0013371300003928

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase25,
author={Yassine Talas and Hajer Rabii},
title={Sustainable Software Development: An ADKAR-Based Framework for Project Managers and Teams},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2025},
pages={643-651},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013371300003928},
isbn={978-989-758-742-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - Sustainable Software Development: An ADKAR-Based Framework for Project Managers and Teams
SN - 978-989-758-742-9
AU - Talas Y.
AU - Rabii H.
PY - 2025
SP - 643
EP - 651
DO - 10.5220/0013371300003928
PB - SciTePress