| The Center for Software Engineering Ethics (CSWEE) is a non-profit
organization established in 2006. The CSWEE serves to centralize the study of
ethics in software engineering as a means to provide genuine, lasting process
improvement.
Our Mission
To foster and promote the study and practice of ethics in the software
engineering domain. This includes conducting research on the current state
and impact of ethics education.
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Company Profile
The company was formed in 2006 by four senior people in
the software development industry. We formed the company as a non-profit
in order to participate in public and private grant programs. There are
three on the board of directors. We are in
the process of hiring additional trainers, training coordinator, and grants
researcher.
Services and Purpose
The primary service of the company is developing and conducting classes on
ethical issues and choices in software development.
The study of ethics is applied to the field of software engineering as a
means of lasting process improvement. This process improvement comes about
from empowering software engineers and management to learn how to take charge of
their roles within a project through ethical choices. This eliminates many
traditional improvement models and re-funnels that money into lasting staff
competencies.
A secondary, but closely related purpose, is to promote honest behaviors in
software development projects as a means of improving the atmosphere of
projects.
The third purpose of the center is to promote and perform research to aid in
the classes and their implementation. Our Vision paper submitted to 2nd Asian
Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOAsia 2006) is available
here.
From the president: "The process improvement models and efforts of the
past fifteen years have been largely ineffective. We believe the
lack of understanding the complexities of ethics is the root cause. This
organization was founded to address this gap."
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