Legal and Ethical Issues in Software Development

LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES
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QUESTION 2
From this scenario, stakeholders include owners, consumers, and employees among others.
According to the ACM code, action can be taken to these stakeholders and this results in both
negative and positive consequences. Concerning employees, the ACM code demands that, they
should be accorded respect, given a rightful pay, appreciated given truthful communication. This
gives them motivation and at the end they will work to produce proper systems. Consumers on
the other hand, should be provided with high quality software that don’t fail each and every time.
The ACM also demands that, customers should also be given ethical products and customer care
services to be availed, this is according to section 1 of the ACM code. This will attract more
customers hence increasing the number of software users. Owners also should like well when it
comes to profitability, longevity, market share, market standing, raising capital, social goals and
succession planning. When all this are done in the right way, the company will experience rapid
expansion.
QUESTION 3
The following are some the factors that led to the failure of Denver Airport Baggage
system:
Lack of scope documentation. For the well-functioning of the system, a detailed documentation
should be provided so as to help employees understand what they should do so as to achieve the
set objective. Lack of enough and relevant documentation makes the employees miss some
information.
Unrealistic expectations. Placing too much expectations on employees will reduce the
efficiency of the software such that one will work to complete it within a limited period of time.
Therefore, employees of system software should be given more time to produce a functional
software. In this scenario, employees are given less time as it’s evident that they only have two
months to test and fix problems before the launch.