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Early Launch/Scenario 3
Assignment 1: Doing Ethics Technique
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SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND MATHS, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
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Q1. What's going on?

Early Launch/Scenario 3
The scenario of “Early Launch” majorly depicts about early launching of any particular
software within any specific organization. The director the program has eventually called the
manager of that project and has instructed him for delivering his software to their client a month
earlier than the decided date for launching. The manager of that project is not ready to launch the
product since, he thinks this would affect the product quality and the client would be unhappy
with the end result (Scenario 3: Early Launch, 2018). Furthermore, the manager of the project is
concerned that the product would be delivered a month earlier; the product will not be encrypted.
There remains an extremely higher possibility that the end product would collapse or crash and
the client will not be happy. This type of concern does not affect the director of the program and
thus he instructs the manager of the project to deliver the product at any cost.
Q2. What are the facts?
The very first fact is that respective program director is instructing project manager for
delivering his product a month earlier than the decided date (Peters, 2015). The second fact in the
case study is that manager of the project is not ready to deliver the product since he thinks this
would affect the product quality. The third major fact of this scenario includes program director
instructing project manager for delivering the product without any type encryption (Ciulla,
2014). The fourth fact here is that the director of the program is tempting the manager of the
project so that he could get more money. In spite of this of temptation, the manager of the project
says that he will not submit the product.
Q3. What are the issues (non-ethical)?
The very first non ethical problem in this scenario of Early Launch is that program
director is instructing the project manager for submitting his software to client a month earlier
than launching date by compromising with the product quality (Durkheim, 2013). The second
most important and significant non-ethical issue includes program director is instructing his sub
ordinate for submitting product without encryption. The third important unethical issue includes
program director is tempting his sub ordinate with more money. This is extremely
unprofessionalism and is violating the laws of professional and moral ethics for the director of
program. The manager of the project is still not ready to compromise with the product quality
even after being tempted with more money. Hence, the director of the program is threatening the
manager of the project for complaining regarding his denial of his orders (Noddings, 2013). He
is threatening that the manager of the project would be removed forever from this project. Thus,
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this could be termed as the next unethical issue. The next unethical issue includes after
consulting with the chief executive officer of the company, the manager of the project is
terminated from any proceedings with this project.
Q4. Who is affected?
The most and vastly affected individual in this particular scenario is client. The client is
paying to the organization for getting good software in return. It is his right to gain good and
exclusive software quality from the company (Trevino & Nelson, 2016). However, since, the
director of the program is providing bad quality of product, he could be termed as the most
affected and most suffered individual in the case study. The next suffered individual here is
manager of the project. He is being terminated from the project for his denial to the unethical
acts. The other sufferer here is the organization itself as it is losing both a good employee and
goodwill.
Q5. What are the ethical issues and their implications?
The most important ethical issue within this scenario of Early Launch is that manager of
the project wants the delivery of the product with proper encryption and good quality. The
second significant ethical issue includes project manager does not wish to compromise with the
overall quality of the product and thus this implies that he is ethical and professional (Niebuhr,
2013). The third ethical issue within the case study is that he is not taking more money for any
type of unethical act; rather he is focusing on customer satisfaction. This implies that there is a
chance the customer would return to the organization.
Q6. What can be done about it?
There are few options that could be the outcomes of this particular scenario. The director
of the program could discuss with the entire team for solving the problem of early launching. He
should listen what the team members are thinking about this early launch (Durkheim, 2013).
There is another option to terminate the manager of the project from this project and therefore,
delay can take place. Moreover, the program director might surrender to the pressure created by
the manager of the project and his respective team.
Q7. What are the options?
Three distinct options are present. The very first option includes program director o
terminates the service and involvement of the manager from his software project (Crane &
Matten, 2016). Second option here is that the director of program surrenders himself in the
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