ITC506 Assignment 1: Doing Ethics Technique and Analysis

This assignment, completed for the ITC506 course at Charles Sturt University, analyzes an ethical dilemma within a project management context using the Doing Ethics Technique (DET). The assignment begins with a scenario involving a senior developer and project manager discussing project progress, resource allocation, and overseas testing concerns. The student identifies key facts, non-ethical and ethical issues, and stakeholders affected by the situation. The core of the assignment involves applying the DET to evaluate the ethical implications, particularly concerning leadership, fundamental rights, and decision-making. Various options are considered, and the student argues for the best course of action, emphasizing the importance of internal testing and resource optimization. The assignment demonstrates an understanding of ethical leadership principles and their impact on project outcomes. The assignment includes a detailed analysis of the ethical issues and provides recommendations for resolving the dilemma, referencing relevant literature to support the arguments.

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Assignment 1: Doing Ethics Technique
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ITC506 Assessment Item 1- Marking Sheet
Total Obtained Marks /100 & /15
Criteria Standards
Marks
award
ed
Analysis
of the
ethical
dilemma
using the
Doing
Ethics
Technique
(DET)
(Value:
70%)
HD: Answers all DET questions, lists all the facts, identifies all the non-
ethical issues, lists all the stakeholders, identifies all the ethical issues,
evaluates all the options that seek to resolve them and selects the best
option from these and justifies why this option is the best using
supporting arguments based on the literature.
DI: Answers all DET questions, lists all the facts, identifies all the non-
ethical issues, lists all the stakeholders, lists all the ethical issues and
options that seek to resolve them and selects the best option from these
and explains why this option is the best.
CR: Answers all DET questions, lists most of the facts, identifies most of
the non-ethical issues, lists most of the stakeholders, lists most of the
ethical issues and options that seek to resolve them and selects the best
option from these and makes an attempt to explain why this option is the
best.
PS: Answers some of the DET questions, lists a few facts, identifies a few
non-ethical issues, lists a few stakeholders, lists a few ethical issues and
options that seek to resolve them and selects the best option from these
but without explaining why this option is the best.
FL: Answers a few DET questions but fails to list important facts, fails to
identify relevant non-ethical issues, fails to list important stakeholders,
fails to identify the ethical issues and evaluates the options that seek to
resolve them and does not select the best option or does not explain why
the option selected is the best.
Writing &
structure
(Value
20%)
HD: Language features and structures are used to convey meaning
effectively, concisely, unambiguously, and in a tone appropriate to the
audience and purpose with no spelling, grammatical, or punctuation
errors.
DI: Well developed skills in expression & presentation of ideas.
Fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document type.
Grammar & spelling accurate.
CR: Good skills in expression & clear presentation of ideas.
Mostly fluent writing style appropriate to assessment task/document
type. Grammar & spelling contains a few minor errors.
PS: The text contains frequent errors in spelling, grammar, word choice,
and structure, lacks clarity, and is not concise, but the meaning is
apparent to the reader with some effort.
FL: Rudimentary skills in expression & presentation of ideas.
Not all material is relevant &/or is presented in a disorganised manner.
Meaning apparent, but writing style not fluent or well organised.
Grammar & spelling contains many errors.
Referenci
ng
(Value
10%)
HD: Referencing is comprehensive, demonstrates academic integrity, and
conforms exactly to APA style conventions.
DI: Very good referencing, including reference list and citations.
High quality references.
CR: Good referencing, including reference list and citations. Good quality
references.
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PS: Referencing is comprehensive, mostly accurate according to APA
style conventions, and demonstrates academic integrity. Some minor
errors or omissions in style and formatting choices (e.g. italics,
punctuation, etc) don’t impact on the transparency and traceability of the
source, or demonstration of academic integrity.
FL: Sub-standard (or no) referencing. Poor quality (or no) references.
Total
Marks
Q1. What's going on?
The senior developer attends a meeting with the project manager
and shares the progress report of the project. The project manager
queries about the software as the deadline of the project is near and also
the team needs to deliver a quality project to the client ("Scenario 1
Overseas Codeshop", 2018). The senior developer explains that the
software will be completed within few days, and also the team has already
made three versions of the required software, each with different aspects.
The developer also explains the manager, that once the software is ready
the all the three versions will be sent for oversea testing and once the
results are given by the oversea testers the software will be provided to
the client, within the given deadline. The project manager is bit concerned
about the senior developer using resources for three different versions,
instead of using all the resources for a single version (Quinn, 2014). The
project manager is also worried about the software being tested overseas,
as the tester are trusted or not, and if they provide proper report of the
software of the crashes and other issues of the software’s. The developer
clarifies that with all the pressure the team had been put on, the project is
going on the right direction, and he himself has tested the codes.
Q2. What are the facts?
 The senior developer and the project manager having a meeting on
the progress of the project.
 The senior report to the manager that the project software is going
to be ready within few days(Day, 2015).
 The team is creating three versions of the software, each with
different aspect.
 After the software is ready, all the developed versions will be sent
for overseas testing.
 The project manager is concerned about the development of the
project and the oversees testing.
Q3. What are the issues?
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The issues of the project manager are that the team working on the
project are preparing three different versions of the software, where as it
would be better if all the resources were being used only for a single
version. One of the other issue is the testing of the project by the over
sear testers (Warren, & Lucas, 2016). The project manager is concerned
about whether the tester will provide best reports about the lags and
crashes in the software. The issue of the senior developer is the time and
version of the software which is to deliver.
Q4. Who is affected?
The project has three different versions of the software, and also the
testing is done by some untrusted overseas developer. Because of this the
project is not developed properly and the client gets unsatisfactory
results. As a result, the company fires the project manger and the senior
developer of the team (Crane & Matten, 2016).
Q5. What are the ethical issues and their implications?
 Leadership: This is one of the key ethical issue in an
organization. In this case the project manager if can lead the
team by properly ensuring and taking the right decision, can
make the project a success (Zhu et al., 2015).
 Fundamental rights: The fundamental right for any employee
in an organization is being respected and dignified by seniors.
In this case it can be seen that the project manager
understands the develops prospective and leads the
developer in right direction.
 Understanding issue: The project manager understands the
issue of the developer and explains what is best for the
betterment of the project.
 Decision making concept: The developer being not much
experienced took a wrong decision, but the seniors respected
the decision took by him and made him understand the faults
and corrects him (Hartman, DesJardins, & MacDonald, 2014).
Q6. What could have been done about it?
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The developer would have not taken the decision of developing
three versions of the software being prepared and would have consulted
the project manager to better understand of the project.
Q7. What are the options?
 Option 1: the project manager explains the senior developer that
why it is necessary to develop only one version of the software and
use all the resources for that particular version. Also, the manager
requests the project developer that after the software is ready the
software can be checked and tested internally by the employees.
This will provide better results about the problems and crashes of
the software and also the manager can keep an eye on the reports.
As a consequence, all the members are given training about how to
use the software and check for results. The software is developed
and tested in time and quality project is delivered to the client
within dead line.
 Option 2: after the meting the project manager gives a call to the
manager of the company and explains that the team working on the
project is not working properly and they are developing three
different versions of the software’s which is not required. The
manager is concerned if firing the entire team is a good idea or not,
and in the end excepts the words of the project manager. As a
consequence, the entire project team is fired, and new team gets
hired. This process takes a long time and the project is delivered
delay breaching the agreement with the client.
 Option 3: The project manager praises the developer for the idea od
developing three different versions of the software and testing them
overseas. Although thee project manager has some gut felling about
the same but approves it. As a consequence, the software is not
developed properly, and erroneous project is delivered to the client
with bugs and crashes (Pullen & Rhodes, 2015). This costs the
project manager and the senior developer with their jobs and career
in the company.
Q8. Which option is the best and why?
The best option in this case is the option 1, where the manager
explains the senior developer about the needs of focusing on one single
version of the software and testing it in the office by the employees
themselves. This option is best because, the client gets the project in
time, the software gets well developed and tested by trusted sources. This
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also enhance the knowledge of the team about the task and future
development of other tasks.
References
Scenario 1 Overseas Codeshop. (2018). YouTube.
Quinn, M. J. (2014). Ethics for the information age. Boston, MA: Pearson.
Day, R. E. (2015). Information ethics: normative and critical
perspectives. Logeion: Filosofia da Informação, 2(1), 33-46.
Warren, M., & Lucas, R. (2016). Ethics and ICT: Why all the fuss?. Journal
of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 14(2), 167-
169.
Zhu, W., Zheng, X., Riggio, R. E., & Zhang, X. (2015). 7 measurements of
ethics-related leadership models, including ethical leadership,
transformational leadership, authentic leadership, servant
leadership, spiritual leadership, and a virtues-based approach to
leadership ethics. The similarities and differences among these
theoretical models and measures to ethics-related. Developing
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