Ethical Dilemmas in Software Development: A Case Study Analysis

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ITC506
Topics in Information Technology Ethics
Assessment 1
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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
1. Identify an ethical dilemma or ethically questionable situation from ONE of the following four
YouTube videos...............................................................................................................................3
Q1. What is going on?.................................................................................................................3
Q2. What are the facts?................................................................................................................3
2. Undertake further research about the ethical issues you identified in your chosen video to
assist you in analysing and discussing it in your essay...................................................................4
Q3. What are the issues?..............................................................................................................4
Q4. Who is affected?...................................................................................................................5
Q5. What are the ethical issues and implications?......................................................................5
3. You are required to analyse the ethical dilemma you have identified above using the Doing
Ethics Technique (DET)..................................................................................................................6
Q6. What can be done about it?...................................................................................................6
Q7. What are the options?...........................................................................................................6
Q8. Which option is best and why?.............................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
This assignment focuses on the usage of information and communication-based technology in
the business environment. For this, there are four videos out of which one video is to be selected
to identify ethical dilemma in it and undertake future research of it. The research here would help
in analyzing the ethical issues which are been identified. Also here DET technique is used to
further examine the ethical dilemmas.
1. Identify an ethical dilemma or ethically questionable situation from ONE of the
following four YouTube videos
Ethical Dilemmas are also called as moral dilemmas which are conditions in which choice has to
be made among the given options but neither of them is able to ethically resolve the situation in
an acceptable fashion. The ethical dilemmas undertake that chooser will be abiding by the norms
of societal so that the accepted choice can be made ethically impossible.
Q1. What is going on?
I have taken Scenario 2: Development methodology, there are three ethical dilemmas for the
developer to respond to the call of the client regarding changes in software. First, the project
manager can request the creator to headfirst such calls to him. Second, project manager yells out
at the junior developer and third, project manager boosts the action taken by the developer (Al-
Saggaf, 2016).
Q2. What are the facts?
Generally, there are three conditions or facts for some situation to consider it as an ethical
dilemma. The first situation is when the agent has to make a conclusion for the best course of act
to take place. In an ethical dilemma, the second condition is that there is need of a different
course of action to be chosen. In a third ethical dilemma, it hardly matters what course of action
has taken place, some of the ethical principles is been compromised (SocialWorker, 2012).