Professional Behaviour

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Professional Behaviour

• BCS Handbook No. 5 - Code of Conduct
• BCS Handbook No. 6 - Code of Practice

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Professional Behaviour

• BCS Code of Conduct
• Six principles, accepted by members as a
  condition of membership.
• Ensure public trust and confidence in computer
  professionals.
• Provide, through a Disciplinary Committee, a
  mechanism for aggrieved parties to address a
  grievance against a member. Committee has powers
  of reprimand, suspension and, subject to the
  resolution of Council, cessation of membership.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• The six principles address
• Professional conduct
• Professional integrity
• Public interest
• Fidelity
• Technical competence
• Impartiality

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Professional conduct
• A members conduct shall uphold the dignity,
  reputation and good standing of the profession.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Professional integrity
• A member shall not by unfair means do anything
  that would harm the reputation, business or
  prospects of another member and he shall at all
  times act with integrity towards the Society, its
  members and the members of other professions with
  whom he may be concerned in a professional
  capacity.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Public interest
• A member in discharging his responsibility to his
  employer or client shall have proper regard to
  the public interest and to the rights of third
  parties and, in particular, shall insure that the
  intellectual property rights of others are not
  prejudiced by him.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Fidelity
• A member shall discharge his obligations to his
  employer or client with complete fidelity. He
  shall not disclose confidential information
  relating to his employer or client.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Technical competence
• A member shall offer only those services which
  are within his competence and shall declare to
  his employer or client the relevant level of
  competence he possesses when his services are
  being sought.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Impartiality
• A member, when acting for a client, shall inform
  his client in writing of any interest he may have
  which could prejudice the impartiality of his
  advice or could conflict with his clients
  interest.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Conduct

• Consulting
• Accountable/technical competence
• Clear language
• Risk identification
• at outset and during progress
• Initial costs and cost implication of risks
• Public interest
• Declaration of interest
• directorships, financial interest and personal
  relationships
• Agreed remuneration
• No poaching of client staff

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• BCS Code of Practice
• Complements the BCS Code of Conduct
• Applies to all members
• Seven main clauses all concerned with
  professional responsibility
• Set out in two levels
• Level One - a series of brief statements which
  define the elements of practice to be observed
• Level Two - the rationale for the Level One
  statements.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Seven main clauses
• Personal requirements
• Organisation and management
• Contracting
• Privacy, security and integrity
• Development
• Implementation
• Live systems

Obvious and merely commonsense
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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Personal requirements
• Keep self and subordinates informed in
• new technologies, practices, legal requirements
  and standards
• Ensure subordinates are trained
• to effectively perform their duties and to
  qualify for new responsibilities
• Accept work within own competence and engage
  consultants where appropriate
• Seek opportunities to increase effectiveness and
  efficiency for the users benefit.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Organisation and management
• Plan, establish and review objectives, tasks and
  organisational structures for self and
  subordinates
• Ensure tasks are assigned according to ability
  and competence
• Establish and maintain channels for communicating
  between seniors, equals and subordinated.
• Be accountable for the quality, timeliness and
  use of resources.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Contracting
• Seek expert advice for the preparation of formal
  contracts
• Ensure proper coverage and responsibility in
  contracts and tendering procedures.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Privacy, security and integrity
• Ascertain and evaluate risks
• with regard to cost, effectiveness and
  practicality of proposed security.
• Recommend appropriate security
• Apply, monitor and report on security
• Ensure that staff are trained to protect life,
  data and equipment in the event of disaster
• Take measures to protect confidential information
  from improper access and use
• Ensure that competent people are responsible for
  accuracy and integrity of data in data files and
  database.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Development
• Exercise impartiality when evaluating project
  benefits
• Plan, monitor, adjust and report on developments,
  acquisition and replacement projects
• Ensure that procedures and documentation are
  available
• Specify system objectives, completion date, cost
  and security requirements with client

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Development continued
• Ensure client involvement through all phases
• Ensure proper completion of all tasks
• Specify and conduct testing
• Ensure design and documentation for audit,
  maintenance, enhancement and comprehension
• Ensure proper input/output design
• Ensure appropriate file maintenance

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Development continued
• Ensure adequate recovery restoration procedures
  are available
• Ensure that project are completed with technical
  soundness, within time and within budget.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Implementation
• Ensure that adequate provision is made for user
  and operations staff training for the complete
  system
• Plan, monitor, adjust and report all activities
  concerned with changeover
• Ensure completion of implementation consistent
  with testing and security.

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Professional BehaviourCode of Practice

• Live systems
• Plan and operate efficient and reliable
  processing within defined budget
• Monitor performance and quality and arrange
  regular reviews of the effectiveness, efficiency
  and security of live systems
• Plan from the start to provide adequate
  maintenance and enhancement support to continue
  to meet all requirements.
• Establish good day-to-day liaison with users.