The paper aims to present a conceptual framework that helps in incorporating sustainability into software projects, highlights the importance of project sustainability and provides an extensive review of recent relevant contributions across various fields.,The authors carried out a systematic bibliographic search on relevant published materials to analyse links between the two disciplines (sustainability and software projects). Furthermore, content analysis was applied to the final selected publications to identify and classify relevant triple bottom line (TBL) aspects to develop the framework.,The inclusion of TBL-related aspects is the most efficient and effective method used to incorporate sustainability into projects. Most of the relevant contributions in the software literature have focussed on either project product or project process or on one or two dimensions of sustainability rather than the three dimensions of the TBL theory. This study contributes by proposing a conceptual framework that encompasses TBL-related aspects for incorporating sustainability into processes and products of software projects.,Validating the proposed framework empirically could be an interesting research issue. In addition, future works may focus on different types of industries, such as information systems, telecommunications and service sectors, which have seldom been studied in the literature.,Software companies – or other relevant organisations – may use the proposed framework as a measurement tool to evaluate the environmental and social impacts of their current products and project management practices. Consequently, these organisations may pay more attention to incorporating sustainability into their project management practices.,The proposed framework may contribute towards a more sustainable orientation by providing a unique combination of TBL-related aspects that gives academics and practitioners a better understanding of how software projects can be managed sustainably.

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将可持续性纳入软件项目：概念框架

本文旨在提出一个概念框架，以帮助将可持续性纳入软件项目中，强调项目可持续性的重要性，并广泛回顾各个领域的最新相关成果。分析两个学科之间的联系（可持续性和软件项目）。此外，对最终选定的出版物进行内容分析，以识别和分类相关的三重底线（TBL）方面，以开发框架。将TBL相关的方面包括在内是将可持续性纳入项目的最有效方法。软件文献中的大多数相关贡献都集中在项目产品或项目过程上，或集中在可持续性的一两个方面，而不是TBL理论的三个方面。本研究通过提出一个包含TBL相关方面的概念框架，以将可持续性纳入软件项目的流程和产品中，从而做出了贡献。从经验上验证提议的框架可能是一个有趣的研究问题。此外，未来的工作可能集中在不同类型的行业，例如信息系统，电信和服务行业，这些在文献中很少进行研究。软件公司（或其他相关组织）可以使用提议的框架作为衡量工具，以评估其当前产品和项目管理实践对环境和社会的影响。因此，这些组织可能会更加关注将可持续性纳入其项目管理实践中。拟议的框架可能会通过提供与TBL相关方面的独特组合来朝着更可持续的方向发展，从而使学者和实践者能够更好地了解软件项目可以进行可持续管理。