Cut! Films and buildings are not like software-based systems but we know that, right?

I’m not a regular film watcher but I tend to watch a few over Christmas. Some of them are new films (at least to me!) and some repeated viewings of older classics. Watching the inevitable re-run of Love Actually, I was reminded of Richard Curtis’ reflections on lack of diversity and some questionable relationship dynamics […]

Group ethics in software development

A couple of weeks ago I attended a really good workshop on How To Stop Being Amoral and Unethical (And Like Yourself Again) at SPA2013 led by John Nolan. The session explored the individual morality of software developers and the ethics of the organizations for which they developed software or of the wider community. The motivating examples […]