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The history of software development within the last twenty (20) years is littered with notable software development and implementation failures; The Denver International Airport’s Luggage Handling System; Ford’s attempts at implementing an ERP / CRM based purchasing system; Avis Europe ERP platform; Hudson Bay’s Inventory Management system and many others; (Ewushi-Mensah, 2003) [i] (Galin, 2004) [ii] Both Galin and Ewusi-Mensa outline that the underlying issues at the root of the cause of software development failures and how they fail are related to the following characteristics of development: in addition to this there is the ever present Chaos report that cites the many reasons for project failure. (Standish Group, 1995) [iii] (Matus, 2009) [iv] ; basically the Standish report on metrics about software projects indicate that only 32% are successful, 44% are challenged and 24% of all projects surveyed fail; of the 24% the reasons for failure are cited as further to this the PMI ...

I have been working in Information Technology for over a decade, throught my career as an “it security guy” I have recieved many questionable requests; the gamut usually includes everything from indviduals to government bodies asking one of the following questions: 1. Can you hack into so and so’s e-mail and screw with them for me? 2. Can you get me free software / movies / music both from friends and employers? 3. Can you find out so and so’s password to this or that resource?  4. Can you engage in this project that is potentially liable and possibly illegal but must be done by our group? What are morals? what is ethical? certianly there have been many great men and women before myself that have spent lifetimes of study in philosphy arguing the benefice of the populace over that of the individual or nominitive and utilitarian views and many doctors of philosophy have argued the virtues and diffrences between Kant, Descartes, Camus, Wittgenstien and Popper(Edmunds et al.)1 ...