Use the five-step decision -making processing to analyze situation and recommend

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Use the five-step decision -making processing to analyze situation and recommend action. 1. You have been asked by manager of software development to lead a small group of software developers in an attempt to reengineer the latest release of the software by your leading competitor. The goal of the group is to identify features that could be implemented into the next few releases of your firm's software. You are told that the group would relocate from the US to island of Antiqua, in the Caribbean Sea, to "reduce the risk of the group being distracted by the daily pressure associated with developing fixes and enhancements with the current software release. What sort of legal and/or ethical questions might be raised by this reengineering effort? Would you consider taking this position?

Explanation / Answer

In this scenario, the legal and/or ethical questions that might be raised are:

1.How much effort and money to invest to ensure high-quality software and

2.Whether products could cause damage and what the legal exposure would be, if they did?

These are the ethical questions concerned in developing software with high quality. As an employee, being requested by the manager to lead a small group of software developers, I would consider this position only if certain conditions are met. First, the manager must give us the guarantee that there will be adequate equipment and functional facilities needed in developing the software. Aside from that, there should also be important things needed to support us as developers like food, water and etc. Second and the most important, they must make sure that we are secure in the place where we are to be destined. And lastly, they should take liable on what might happen to our team while we are making the software. If these are not granted, of course I will not take the said position because it could put me and the developers’ team in risk.

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