How to Turn Ethical Values Into System Requirements: Lessons Learned from Adopting a New IEEE Standard in the Business World

Software engineering not only imports metaphors from other domains, it also exports disruption into society (at times). Hence, the ethical implications of software become more and more critical. In this Insights, our guest author and her interviewees reflect on the construction and early adoption of IEEE 7000, the first technical standard that integrates value-centric philosophies and ethical schools into a set of risk-based analysis and design processes.