Ethics

System Fundamentals

This is pretty straight forward stuff. Nothing especially technical. We are concerned with the big picture related how systems integrate into organisations and how people use them. I used the standards from the IB, but added some other topics I think fit into this category (but not included by the IB).

The big ideas in system fundamentals

Systems in Organizations

A computer program or computer system is used by people who work in organizations. It is very helpful to understand how people, computers, and organizations work together.

Planning and system installation

• System planning
• Change management
• Legacy system
• Testing implementation
• Installation process
• Data migration
• Testing

User Focus

• User documentation
• User training

System Backup

• Data loss
• Preventing data loss

Software Deployment

• Managing releases and updates

System Design

Components of a computer system

• Hardware, software, peripheral, network, human resources
• Computers in a networked world
• Social and ethical issues in a networked world (also see ethics)

System Design and analysis

• Planning and stakeholder involvement
• Getting requirements from stakeholders (see also design process)
• Gathering information for solutions (see also design process)
• Illustrate system requirements (see also design process)
• Prototypes (see also design process)
• Iteration (see also design process)
• Why end-users matter so much (see also design process)
• Social and ethical issues associated with the introduction of new IT systems (see also design process)

Human interaction with the system

• Usability
• Problems with usability
• Improving usability
• Moral, ethical, social, economic and environmental implications of the interaction between humans and machines (see also ethics)

Produce a plan, simulation or model.