Professional Ethics - Ethics for the Information Age - page 416

2.04 Ensure that any document upon which they rely has been approved, when re-
quired, by someone authorized to approve it.
2.05 Keep private any confidential information gained in their professional work,
where such confidentiality is consistent with the public interest and consistent
with the law.
2.06 Identify, document, collect evidence and report to the client or the employer
promptly if, in their opinion, a project is likely to fail, to prove too expensive, to
violate intellectual property law, or otherwise to be problematic.
2.07 Identify, document, and report significant issues of social concern, of which they
are aware, in software or related documents, to the employer or the client.
2.08 Accept no outside work detrimental to the work they perform for their primary
employer.
2.09 Promote no interest adverse to their employer or client, unless a higher ethical
concern is being compromised; in that case, inform the employer or another
appropriate authority of the ethical concern.
PRINCIPLE 3: PRODUCT
Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the
highest professional standards possible. In particular, software engineers shall, as appro-
priate:
3.01 Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring signif-
icant tradeoffs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are
available for consideration by the user and the public.
3.02 Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they
work or propose.
Project Goals:
Work from Web browser
Easy to learn
Capture 100% market share
FIGURE 9.4 Software engineers shall ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for
any project on which they work or propose (clause 3.02).