Problems of sustainable development today are identified and tried to solve in all fields of life. In this respect information technologies play a specific role. Many studies have been devoted to analysis of information technology (ICT) as tools for sustainable development. Different contributions and threats posed by ICT to sustainable development are discussed. However, methodological and legislative base of software development is not sufficiently researched from the perspective of sustainable development of information technologies. This paper presents literature review of conference and journal articles and materials of international projects on the topic of different ICT roles in sustainable development. The review shows the lack of regulatory framework analysis of information technologies. This analysis is done in separate part of the present paper. We found and analysed weaknesses of evolution of software development methods which put marketing considerations in the first plan. On the basis of the done analysis we discuss possible future work to put sustainable foundations to information technology knowledge from the very beginning of ICT specialists training.