Doing Ethics Technique: A Case Study in Software Development

ITC506
Topics in Information Technology Ethics
Assessment 1
Doing Ethics Technique
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
1. What is going on?........................................................................................................................2
2. What are the facts?.......................................................................................................................2
3. What are the issues?.....................................................................................................................2
4. Who is affected?..........................................................................................................................2
Ethics analysis.................................................................................................................................3
5. What are the ethical issues and implications?.........................................................................3
6. What can be done about it?......................................................................................................3
7. What options are there?...........................................................................................................3
8. Which option is best – and why?.............................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
Reference.........................................................................................................................................5
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Introduction
Information and communications technology (ICT) is a collection of technology that is used to
handle broadcast media, telecommunications, network-based control or monitoring functions. I
work on video scenario whose link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfJ07gfHyc.
1. What is going on?
In this Video, Client said to Project Manager that current software has a problem and need more
user-friendly software before the deadline of the project. It explained some dilemmas that
occurred during the software development and also measure the dilemmas. Ethical issues are
solved by the unethical options. In the given case, software developer faced the business
dilemmas and trying the solved the ethical issue through unethical options but the
implementation is difficult. In the end, it provides the reasonable results and leads to
accomplishments for the long-term goals (Wagner & Sanders, 2001).
2. What are the facts?
Completion of the project on deadlines a major challenge for the project manager of any project.
Different facts show that delay in testing leads the project to miss the given deadlines. Also
missing the deadlines affect the loss in confidence of stakeholders that are associated with the
project. This may result in losing the opportunities that are associated with the business growth
of organisation (Sussex, 2016).
3. What are the issues?
Open source code, illegal software (perform the task), Reverse engineering code, bugs and
competition are the ethical issues which affect the environment of development and software.
These are a serious issue that impacts the organization reputation and privacy policies. So the
organization preferred the installed advanced information and communication technologies that
enhance the profit and success of the organization (Singer & Vinson,2002).
4. Who is affected?
The ethical issue is creating legal issues in the organization that are a collection of rules which
are defined by the organization and software user. It occurred due to lack of user-friendly and
some other issue. These issues are affected the software developing and software user
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