Artefacts & Sustainability Anchors
Creating transparency around value — and impact
Artefacts provide clarity on what is being built, why it matters, and how progress is made.
They help teams stay aligned, inspect results, and adapt based on facts — not assumptions.
In the Green Agile Guide, each artefact is extended with a Sustainability Anchor:
a lightweight but powerful way to surface the ecological, economic and social impact of the work.
These anchors strengthen existing artefacts without changing their original intent — and help teams turn sustainability into daily practice.
Sustainability Anchors make the long-term impact of decisions visible, inspectable, and actionable — directly within the artefacts that guide the work.
They are not add-ons, but part of responsible product development.
Artefacts in the Green Agile Guide
The way we define work defines what we care about.
By embedding sustainability into artefacts, teams create transparency for impact — and enable better decisions across time horizons.
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Strategic Impact Planning links long-term direction with daily work — enabling sustainability to shape priorities, trade-offs, and systemic awareness.
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Sustainable Iteration Planning connects short-term planning with delivery reality — balancing scope, velocity, and ecological responsibility.
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Outcome & Quality Anchoring evaluates what has been delivered — using shared quality criteria and sustainability anchors to improve continuously.
Anchoring sustainability in artefacts means seeing impact early, not repairing it later.
It creates clarity around value — and the cost of achieving it.
Meetings and Events
Sustainability in Green Agile is implemented without adding new meetings.
Instead, it is integrated into common Agile events such as
- Sprint Planning or Iteration Planning
- Daily Scrum or Daily Check-ins
- Sprint Review or Product Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Scaled ceremonies like PI Planning or Quarterly Planning
This ensures adoption is smooth, lightweight, and compatible with frameworks like Scrum, SAFe or Kanban.