Jan Meinarj Sean S.

Bocala
4th year BS-IT
Software Engineer

Assignment
Review Question #12
1. Based on information contained in this lesson and your own experience, develop “ten
commandments” for empowering software engineers. That is, make a list of 10
guidelines that will lead to software people who work to their full potential.
1. Stay Focus
2. Study hard
3. Have a healthy diet
4. Rejection is your key to success
5. Code more
6. Practice more
7. Try and try
8. Never surrender
9. Love what you are doing
10. Fight !!!

2. Describe 3 real life situations in which the customer & the end user are the same.
Describe 3 situations in which they are different.
Same:
1. Creating business procedure
2. Creating a system that works
3. Earning a profit
Not Same:
1. Price of the system
2. Scheduling
3. Quality of the product

3. Review a copy of Weinberg’s book[Wei86], and write a 2 or 3 page summary of the

issues that should be considered in applying MOI model.
Weinberg is well known for an engaging style of writing that calls upon his own
humorous aphorisms, such as his Law of Twins, which states that most of the time, no
matter how much effort one expends, no event of any great significance will result. He
described it in his book The Secrets of Consulting (1985), in which he explains the origin
of its name. He reported that, while riding a bus in New York City, he observed a mother
with eight small children embark. She asked the driver the amount of the fare; he told her
that the cost was thirty-five cents, but that children under the age of five could ride for
free. When the woman deposited only thirty-five cents into the payment slot, the driver
was incredulous. "Do you mean to tell me that all your children are under five years old?"
The woman explained that she had four sets of twins. The driver replied, "Do you always
 have twins?" "No," said the woman, "most of the time we don't have any."

In recent years, Weinberg was involved with the SHAPE Forum (Software as a Human
Activity Performed Effectively) and working with the AYE Conference. Weinberg’s life
and work were honored in November 2008 with the publication of The Gift of Time, a
collection of essays by a few of his students, colleagues, and friends, describing lessons
learned from Weinberg and incorporated in their own consulting and managerial work.
Weinberg has also written and published a number of novels.

Review Question #13

1. Among the code of Ethics of which is the most violated? Why?
a. I think the most violated is 3.12 or “Work to develop software and related
documents that respect the privacy of those who will be affected by that
software”. Nowadays the privacy of data is not treating as a big security risk
among systems.

2. Which code of Ethics do you think should be remove? Why?

a. I think the ethics needed to remove is the 2.08 or “Accept no outside work
detrimental to the work they perform for their primary employer”. The programmer
should have an extra income.