As sustainability takes center stage across businesses, green and energy-efficient choices are more crucial than ever. While it is becoming increasingly evident that software and the software industry are substantial and rapidly evolving contributors to carbon emissions, there is a dearth of approaches to create actionable awareness about this during the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Can software teams comprehend how green are their projects? Here we provide an industry perspective on why this is a challenging and worthy problem that needs to be addressed. We also outline an approach to quickly gauge the "greenness" of a software project based on the choices made across different SDLC dimensions and present the initial encouraging feedback this approach has received.

翻译：由于可持续性在企业中占据中心位置,绿色和节能选择比以往任何时候都更加重要。 软件和软件行业是碳排放的重要和快速变化的推动者,这一点越来越明显,但在软件开发生命周期(SDLC)中,缺乏培养对此问题可操作意识的方法。 软件团队能理解项目是如何绿色的吗? 在这里,我们从行业角度出发,说明为什么这是一个需要解决的具有挑战性和有价值的问题。 我们还概述了一种基于SDLC不同层面的选择快速衡量软件项目“绿色”的方法,并介绍了这一方法得到的初步令人鼓舞的反馈。