Assignment No.

01 Total Marks: 15
Semester: Fall 2019
CS625 – Professional Practices Due Date: 19/11/2019

Assignment no. 1 covers Lectures of Week#1 to 4.

Objectives of Assignment:

 To learn about the basic Professional Ethics.

 To understand the basic structure of organizations.
 To understand the basics of Anatomy of a Software House.

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Question no. 1: 5 Marks

Organizations around the world always strive to achieve the highest standards of Integrity and actions to conduct
their business in a responsible and ethical way. For this purpose, IEEE has defined principles of code of ethics for
these organizations to achieve this environment.

Identify in which principle of code of ethics does the following cases fall:

1) Software engineers should develop software for the organization that must be of quality and meet
professional standards set by the organization.
2) Employees need to perform their professional responsibilities. They also need to promote the practices
 and learning in an ethical approach.
3) A software engineer should always be open-minded and supportive of his colleagues.
4) Software engineers need to maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.
5) Software Engineers shall act in a manner that is in the best interest of their client and employer.

Question no. 2: 5 Marks

Zachtech is a multinational company known for developing quality software products. For the past one year, the
company is facing a problem for not generating enough yearly revenue. The main reason is that resources to carry
out the task of developing products are not being managed properly which resulted delays in product completion.
For this purpose, the company wants to hire a person who will be responsible for overcoming this loss, the
company is facing.
Which type of person the company should hire? Justify your answer with valid reason.

Question no. 3:
5 Marks
Citrus bit is a software company which is known for developing embedded system. Lately the company has
formed a software team which will be working on a complex system. The team will be mainly responsible for
development of the system. However, in order to carry out the development activities smoothly, services of a
person are required who will be managing those activities, so that the resulting system may meet the user
requirements within the allocated budget and time.

Carefully read the above-mentioned scenario and answer who will be responsible to carry out this task? Also
justify your answer with valid reason(s).

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assignment (or some portion of the assignment) from the internet or other students will lead to copy case and zero
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at CS625@vu.edu.pk

Deadline:
Your assignment must be uploaded/submitted on or before.