What could possibly go wrong? Ethics and software development.

First MeetCast in 2021 and we will start with a bang!

TL;DR: We will have a pleasure to talk with Fiona Charles and James Christie about a topic that often is neglected but is very important for all of us - ethics in software development! As always - the central part of the meeting will be a discussion with the audience. You not only can but should ask questions. We are meeting online using zoom.us.

Meeting topic
What could possibly go wrong? Ethics and software development.

The first and second industrial revolution has made drastic changes to humanity. The average level of life has risen; more goods became available to the wider public. We started to influence and shape the world like no other species before. This accelerated growth also had some downsides for which we have to pay today - overpopulation, environmental changes, global warming, etc. We can see our influence with our bare eyes.
If the first two revolutions have transformed the psychical world in which we are living in, what impact on us will have the third and fourth industrial revolutions that we can observe now? Access to the Internet today is not only considered a commodity, but there is a dispute on should it be treated a basic human right. IoT, AI, 5G networks - all of this is transforming not the psychical world but the way we interact with each other. How often do we think about the impact of that on our lives?
Together with Fiona and James, we will talk about the issues around ethics in software development.

Guests
Fiona Charles

Fiona Charles is an independent coach, consultant, and workshop facilitator specialising in the human side of software development, quality, and testing. She teaches organizations to manage their software quality risk, and software practitioners human skills “beyond process”—hands-on practical skills essential to thrive, excel, and lead on any kind of software team. Fiona delivers keynotes and conducts interactive workshops at international conferences and in-house for clients, has recorded several webinars, and published many articles in quality-related publications. She edited “The Gift of Time” (2008), a book of essays celebrating the work of Gerald M. Weinberg.

Contact Fiona via her website www.quality-intelligence.com, and follow her on Twitter @FionaCCharles.

James Christie

James Christie is a self-employed testing consultant who has worked in IT since the 1980s. Before moving into testing he spent six years as an IT auditor. He has also worked in information security management, project management, business analysis and development, as both a highly technical coder and team leader. His varied experience has helped him to understand the relationships between different specialisms. He is particularly interested in links between testing, auditing, governance and compliance. He spent 14 years working for one of the UK’s biggest insurance companies, then nine years with a large IT services company, working with clients in the UK and Finland, before he became self-employed.

His blog is at https://clarotesting.wordpress.com/about/ and you can contact him on jameschristie2020@gmail.com or on Twitter, @James_Christie.

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