8 Families | 45 Essential criteria / 516
Opt for the must-have sustainable design best practices with the list on the right.
1. Define and validate the needs and challenges of the project in order to anticipate the impacts
Topic: Project framing
Is the business need expressed ?
1. Define and validate the needs and challenges of the project in order to anticipate the impacts
Topic: Emergence
Does digital service goals subscribe to one of SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) ?
2. Plan, prepare and validate the availability of Human Resources in Sustianable IT
Topic: Emergence
Are internal and external stakeholders aware of, or even trained / certified in Sustainable IT ?
3. Determine and plan the capacity to monitor and capitalize on the Digital components Project manager
Topic: Emergence
Is sustainable IT compliance exposed to users ?
5. Act to reduce the impact of ICT by building urbanized IS targets and plans (*NEW)
Topic: Urbanisation
Have you built an IS target by seeking consistency and pooling ?
6. Take action to reduce the impact of the IS by optimizing IT assets and mutualization (*NEW)
Topic: Urbanisation
Have you defined and implemented within the DSI an IS debt and obsolescence management system ?
1. Organize so that human resources would take into account the Sustainable IT approach in a project
Topic: project Team
Have the Sustainable IT challenges of the project been communicated to the team from the start ?
1. Organize so that human resources would take into account the Sustainable IT approach in a project
Topic: project Team
Does each group of the Project team have Sustainable IT skills ?
3. Organize the project methodology to carry out a Sustainable IT approach
Topic: project methodology
What proportion of the functionalities (User Story) have a Sustainable IT component ?
5. Prepare the monitoring of the project life cycle and performance indicators / Sustainable IT profit
Topic: economic process
In the purchasing process (Call for tenders) are Sustainable IT commitment requirements asked of external service providers ?
5. Prepare the monitoring of the project life cycle and performance indicators / Sustainable IT profit
Topic: Lifecycle Management
Do all specified data and procedures have end-of-life information ?
1. Incorporate Sustainable IT into the major objectives of the project
Topic: Methodology
In the brain storming process, are all stakeholders taken into account in their entire (human) dimension ?
1. Incorporate Sustainable IT into the major objectives of the project
Topic: Methodology
Is the planet taken into account in the brain storming process, in order to integrate the ecological dimension (planet centric design) ?
1. Incorporate Sustainable IT into the major objectives of the project
Topic: Methodology
Are the extra-financial added value of sustainble digital technology valued in the business model ?
2. Raise awareness among internal and external stakeholders about Responsible Digital
Topic: Project Resources
Are stakeholders informed about Sustainable IT ?
3. Make the digital service available and accessible to the greatest number of users
Topic: Methodology
Is a policy for compatibility with obsolete terminals and software versions established ?
4. Enable people with disabilities to access and use the digital service effectively
Topic: Methodology
From the design stage, does the service meet the current accessibility standards in (at a minimum) ?
5. "Less is More": Focus on essential features and simplify your interface
Topic: UI
Is a visual soberness implemented so as to reduce energy resources use and the impact on the material deterioration of the visual, sound and tactile interface's components ?
5. "Less is More": Focus on essential features and simplify your interface
Topic: Methodology
Are the features used by the user ?
8. Media engineering: reducing the digital service media as much as possible (images, animations, content, etc.)
Topic: UI
Is a media management / use policy in place to reduce their impact, with criteria for media compression and formats ?
8. Media engineering: reducing the digital service media as much as possible (images, animations, content, etc.)
Topic: UI
Are the number of fonts and the variants of fonts called (weight, characters used in the project) limited ?
10. Value: design an ethical Digital Service, in line with your values
Topic: Methodology
Does the service avoid Dark Patterns ?
10. Value: design an ethical Digital Service, in line with your values
Topic: Use
Are rules in terms of respect for the user in place ?
1. Apply an editorial approach for content
Topic:
Do text formatting tags meet the need for prioritization of information, not presentation enhancements ?
2. Reduce the footprint of static content
Topic: Pictures
Have the images been compressed upstream in a format suitable for viewing ?
3. Avoid active content, keep dynamic content under user control
Topic: Videos
Can the information carried by the video be replaced by an alternative (computer graphics ...) ?
5. Ensure the link between content and uses
Topic: Downloads
Are the documents to download compressed, optimized and accessible ?
3. Use environments and tools that limit impacts
Topic: API
Are the functionalities covered by local actions (client side) privileged rather than API exchanges ?
4. Reduce the effects of obsolescence
Topic: user experience
Is the backward compatibility range defined ?
5. Implement and develop functionalities to limit impacts
Topic: development standards
Don't the functionalities of the service go beyond user needs ?
9. Implement technical solutions with the lowest impact
Topic: UI
Is a clean version available for prints ?
10. Look for the implementation of sober behaviors
Topic: UI
Are cartography objects, animations, videos presented in a static mode ?
2. Anticipate the operation of services
Topic: Life cycle
Are the environments other than production (DEV, QA, ...) switched off or decommissioned outside the ranges of use (at night, outside the test periods) ?
7. Associate data, flows, applications and security to allow their identification and traceability
Topic: Life cycle
Is each component deployed qualified from the point of view of its lifespan, and are the deprovisioning procedures systematically expressed ?
9. Define the Sustainable IT objectives of the project and their adequacy in the operational context
Topic: Software design
Are all the technical equipment used by the service identified ?
1. Reduce the impact of data from its storage and access
Topic: Data
Is the number of requests kept to a minimum (no looping) ?
2. Use the technical components that improve the sustainable IT aspects, security and performance
Topic: Quality
Is the documentation of the functionality available to enable its reuse ?
3. Limit the volume of exchanges
Topic: Flux
Is the data exchanged compressed before transmission ?
6. Set up a methodology that promotes the consideration of Sustainable IT aspects
Topic: Life cycle
Is the envisioned functionality useful ?
1. Reduce the impact of hosting
Topic: Location
Is the waste from the data center recovered or recycled ?
1. Reduce the impact of hosting
Topic: Energy
Is PUE (Power Usage Effectivness) available ?
3. Adapt the use of technical equipment to needs
Topic: Systems (software)
Is the size of the physical park in line with the number of virtual machines to be run ?
4. Monitor the impact of the host
Topic: Energy
Are the servers and technical equipment certified ?
4. Monitor the impact of the host
Topic: Systems (software)
Does the supplier display all of its indicators ?
4. Monitor the impact of the host
Topic: Equipment (hardware)
Is the end-of-life equipment recycled or upcycled (sale / donation / recycling, etc.) ?