How to Turn Ethical Values Into System Requirements: Lessons Learned from Adopting a New IEEE Standard in the Business World

Software engineering not only imports metaphors from other domains, it also exports disruption into society (at times). Hence, the ethical implications of software become more and more critical. In this Insights, our guest author and her interviewees reflect on the construction and early adoption of...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 9 - 16
Main Authors Bohr, Barbel, Pautasso, Cesare, Zimmermann, Olaf
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.01.2025
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Business
Design standards
Ethical standards
Ethics
IEEE Standards
Philosophical considerations
Software development management
Software engineering
System analysis and design
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Summary:Software engineering not only imports metaphors from other domains, it also exports disruption into society (at times). Hence, the ethical implications of software become more and more critical. In this Insights, our guest author and her interviewees reflect on the construction and early adoption of IEEE 7000, the first technical standard that integrates value-centric philosophies and ethical schools into a set of risk-based analysis and design processes.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2024.3472928