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By Frank Bott

ISBN-10: 1780170254

ISBN-13: 9781780170251

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ISBN-13: 9781902505657

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To operate successfully, expert IT practitioners don't need to purely the ideal technical wisdom, abilities and event, but in addition a extensive realizing of the context during which they function. a great grounding within the dating among technological switch, society and the legislation, and the strong position that desktops and desktop pros play in a technological society, is vital. expert matters in info expertise aids IT execs to be able of their selected specialist components, function successfully in paintings and neighborhood events and to concentrate on their environments.

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The Head of State is a separate non-executive President; since 1993 Heads of State have been directly elected by the citizens. Their role is largely ceremonial, but they have more powers than the Queen. Their signature is required before a bill becomes law; they can veto government budgets and public appointments but they can only withhold their signature if they consider that a bill is unconstitutional. Singapore is a multiracial society and the electoral system includes special features to ensure that minority races will always be represented in Parliament.

Duty to the Profession Like other professions, information systems professionals have not always had a good press. System development has been plagued by delays, budget overruns and complete failures, and these have been well publicized. Too 27 Professional Issues in Information Technology often, the systems themselves do not meet the needs of their users. And information systems professionals have, on occasions, been perceived as behaving in an unprofessional manner. The purpose of this section of the Code is to impress on members what is expected of them in order to uphold the reputation and good standing of the BCS in particular, and the profession in general.

Such a regulation would be impossible to enforce. The number of people qualified to be registered as software engineers is vastly fewer than the number of people developing software. If such a regulation were introduced, the amount of new software that could be developed would be enormously reduced or, more likely, software development would go underground. Furthermore, there would be considerable opposition to the regulation. Many software developers would see it as an attempt to establish a monopoly by a small number of people with specific qualifications, with the intention of pushing up their own earnings.

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