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[ID#] 5 [Author(s)] Sean Dodd; Mark Lycett [Abstract] Information System (IS) development projects are notorious for late delivery, poor quality and/or excessive cost. Although attempts have been made to reduce or even omit these �symptoms�, it is postulated here that, in part at least, that their cause lies in ethical tensions between the constraints of time, cost, quality and scope. The IEEE/ACM organisations jointly created a code of conduct for software developers and project managers which was first published in 1992, with the aim of addressing ethical tensions, called the IEEE/ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Software Developers. With this in mind, the paper outlines a case study that was conducted with a project development team employed by a large international company based in west London. The objectives of the case study included the identification of unethical practices implemented by project managers and software developers and, to identify their cause. To facilitate this goal, an understanding of the context in which software development is undertaken was also sought - with participation in the research by other business units with which project teams interact. The business units identified as pertinent to software development were: Recruitment, Human Resources, Quality Control and the company as a whole due to it having an influential US parent. The paper concludes by looking at the theoretical and practical implications this study has for how the IEEE/ACM code might be improved and how ethical codes might be better implemented by software project managers. [Title] 
Ethical Frameworks and Software Project Management: a Case Study to Identify the Role and Importance to Practitioners of the IEEE/ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Software Developers.
UKAIS 2003: Abstracts
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