Integration of sustainable development in software development : case study : wedding planning

Abstract

Context: Sustainable software development is a set of practices and mindset (principles) that help teams and software organizations maintain and achieve an optimal development pace (Kevin Tate 2005). While the pace of innovation is on a steady increase in the high-tech sector, successful software application lifetime is on the decrease even though not in a way that is relatable. When an application or tool is successful in sustainable development, the demand for it is on the increase, teams are proactive and give customers value for their money and add progress to our environment. Sustainable software development can help in the reductions of inefficiency in software productions which in turn will lead to sustainable practices. Goal: The aim of this thesis is to help software organizations; event planners and end-users maintain sustainable practices by creating a software application that reduces wastes in events.

Method: A quantitative and qualitative study was conducted for this thesis. The quantitative study was conducted through survey by collecting 76 answers from different people which ranges from engaged couples, students, working class individual etc., while the qualitative study was conducted confidentially for CEO, Developers, Business developments managers etc., of software organizations and event servicer organizations (as detailed in the results chapter).

The Result: The survey conducted revived that over 50% of the respondents are interested in using the application, which would suggest an emerging need for the services provided by the application and the framework developed in this thesis will help guide in event planning and if some of the practices mentioned be implemented with events planning, it will create sustainable business practice and raise more awareness in the marketing of more sustainable consumption.

Conclusions: An interesting observation from the study is that over 90% of the respondents do not have a current alternative for this service, which indicates that there is a gap in the market for sustainable events service.