Professional IT Culture

Running head: PROFESSIONAL IT CULTURE
Professional IT Culture
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PROFESSIONAL IT CULTURE
Table of Contents
Subtask 1: Case Study.....................................................................................................................4
1.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................4
1.2 Stakeholders and their decision making approaches.............................................................4
1.3 Ethical dilemma.....................................................................................................................5
1.4 Ethical Response to the dilemma...........................................................................................5
1.5 Application of ACS Code of Professional Conduct..............................................................5
1.6 Application of ethical philosophies.......................................................................................6
1.7 Conclusion.............................................................................................................................6
1.8 Reference...............................................................................................................................7
Subtask 2: Development of career plan using SFIA6......................................................................9
2.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................9
2.2 Skills Framework for the Information Age...........................................................................9
2.3 Selection and justification of responsibility level in SFIA 6.................................................9
2.4 Acquiring of skill set for level 5..........................................................................................10
2.5 Career development timeline with milestones.....................................................................11
2.6 Conclusion...........................................................................................................................11
2.7 Reference.............................................................................................................................12

PROFESSIONAL IT CULTURE
Executive Summary
The paper will be listing the stakeholders associated with the case study. How each of the
stakeholder applies or fails the ethical decision making in the IT environment will be discussed
in the paper. Ethical response to the dilemma will be stated in the paper in a detailed manner.
The consequences of their action will also be stated in the paper. The ACS code of professional
conduct will be evaluated in the paper considering this case study. Ethical philosophies will be
discussed in this paper considering the actions of the prime stakeholders.

PROFESSIONAL IT CULTURE
Subtask 1: Case Study
1.1 Introduction
The case study will be focussing on the list of stakeholders and their association with the
ACS code of Professional Conduct. According to the case study, Mr. McBright is an employee
of New Age Pvt Ltd which develops OS by the name XYZ Pty Ltd and Mrs. McDonald is an
inefficient senior employee who is also the system in charge of XYZ Pty Ltd gets reported from
Mr. McBright (Boland & Mogk, 2018). An ethical dilemma followed when Mr McBright
discovered a bug in a 2-million-dollar project but Mrs. McBright passed the project to XYZ Pty
Ltd inspite of knowing about the bug. This resulted in the development of a bug known as
McDonaldBug which destroyed the records of the Bad luck bank and also burned an office
complex owned by Tasty Burgers Pvt Ltd. As a result, both organizations, sued XYZ Pty Ltd for
their loss but Mayor Hon. Joseph Luck interfered in the legal proceedings, having a connection
with the with XYZ Pty Ltd both the corporations are suffering in the proceedings as the case
have been adjourned indefinitely.
1.2 Stakeholders and their decision making approaches
Mr. McBright was very much ethical in his working environment, as he wanted Mrs.
McDonald to reconsider the project schedule as he identified the mal-functioning of the OS
while testing it. Mr. McBright successfully applied ethical decision making approaches in his
workplace. Mrs. McDonald was very much complacent with her position in New Age Pvt Ltd
and was very much biased in the recruitment process of the organization failing to meet ethical
decision making approaches (Burmeister, 2017). Biased nature of Mayor Hon. Joseph Luck was