3.7 Exercises

1. Your company provides a range of computer-based business systems. A client requests the provision of one of the more expensive implementations for his application. However, on evaluating their requirements, you realize that a much simpler and cheaper solution would be satisfactory. When you propose to do this, you are told that your business is to make as much money as possible for your employer – give the customer what was asked for in the first place. What are your views on the ethics of this? What would you do?
2. As a project manager, you are requested to evaluate a software development plan. This gives details of a two-year software design and development project. Within this timeframe, three months are allocated to integration and testing. What comments would you make concerning this; justify them with reference to appropriate statistics?
3. You have been appointed a manager of an embedded software development group in a company that makes diesel engines...