Empowered and Embedded: Ethics and Agile Processes
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07249v1
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 11:14:03 GMT
- Title: Empowered and Embedded: Ethics and Agile Processes
- Authors: Niina Zuber, Severin Kacianka, Jan Gogoll, Alexander Pretschner,
Julian Nida-R\"umelin
- Abstract summary: We argue that ethical considerations need to be embedded into the (agile) software development process.
We put emphasis on the possibility to implement ethical deliberations in already existing and well established agile software development processes.
- Score: 60.63670249088117
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: In this article we focus on the structural aspects of the development of
ethical software, and argue that ethical considerations need to be embedded
into the (agile) software development process. In fact, we claim that agile
processes of software development lend themselves specifically well for this
endeavour. First, we contend that ethical evaluations need to go beyond the use
of software products and include an evaluation of the software itself. This
implies that software engineers influence peoples' lives through the features
of their designed products. Embedded values are thus approached best by
software engineers themselves. Therefore, we put emphasis on the possibility to
implement ethical deliberations in already existing and well established agile
software development processes. Our approach relies on software engineers
making their own judgments throughout the entire development process to ensure
that technical features and ethical evaluation can be addressed adequately to
transport and foster desirable values and norms. We argue that agile software
development processes may help the implementation of ethical deliberation for
five reasons: 1) agile methods are widely spread, 2) their emphasis on flat
hierarchies promotes independent thinking, 3) their reliance on existing team
structures serve as an incubator for deliberation, 4) agile development
enhances object-focused techno-ethical realism, and, finally, 5) agile
structures provide a salient endpoint to deliberation.
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