10professionalism

Editor's Notes

• #5: How you look, talk, work, act and feel can portray professionalism. But what is it? What is the difference between a professional and an amateur?? Is it a high level of technical skills? Is it other things as well?? f you think you might be hard pressed to define professionalism with respect to IT, it may help to consider the following behaviours that IT professionals often exhibit: Producing quality work: Professionals aren't satisfied with simply completing the task--they desire to deliver the highest quality possible. Maximising knowledge: Professionals stay abreast of the constant changes in their field. Being innovative: Professionals are creative and use this ability to solve problems in new ways. Showing constant improvement: Professionals are always trying to improve upon their solution. Seeking additional or greater responsibility: Professionals seek greater control over what they do, and accepting greater responsibility is a means to this end. Teaching: Professionals delight in sharing their knowledge. Ignoring distractions or losses: Professionals understand and accept setbacks as a normal part of the process and don't allow failure to impact their goals. Understanding the importance of communication, appearance, and mannerisms: Professionals realise that the way they look, act, speak, and write impacts the way others perceive them. Possessing a good attitude: Professionals understand that a positive attitude can have a considerable impact on their success. Keeping up with ethics, regulatory, and legal issues: Professionals are cognisant of the ethical, legal, regulatory, and industry issues involved in their work. Comprehending a project's business aspects: Professionals understand the business aspects to the projects with which they're involved--often as well as the business stakeholders that are providing the requirements.
• #6: How you look, talk, work, act and feel can portray professionalism. But what is it? What is the difference between a professional and an amateur?? Is it a high level of technical skills? Is it other things as well?? f you think you might be hard pressed to define professionalism with respect to IT, it may help to consider the following behaviours that IT professionals often exhibit: Producing quality work: Professionals aren't satisfied with simply completing the task--they desire to deliver the highest quality possible. Maximising knowledge: Professionals stay abreast of the constant changes in their field. Being innovative: Professionals are creative and use this ability to solve problems in new ways. Showing constant improvement: Professionals are always trying to improve upon their solution. Seeking additional or greater responsibility: Professionals seek greater control over what they do, and accepting greater responsibility is a means to this end. Teaching: Professionals delight in sharing their knowledge. Ignoring distractions or losses: Professionals understand and accept setbacks as a normal part of the process and don't allow failure to impact their goals. Understanding the importance of communication, appearance, and mannerisms: Professionals realise that the way they look, act, speak, and write impacts the way others perceive them. Possessing a good attitude: Professionals understand that a positive attitude can have a considerable impact on their success. Keeping up with ethics, regulatory, and legal issues: Professionals are cognisant of the ethical, legal, regulatory, and industry issues involved in their work. Comprehending a project's business aspects: Professionals understand the business aspects to the projects with which they're involved--often as well as the business stakeholders that are providing the requirements.
• #7: How you look, talk, work, act and feel can portray professionalism. But what is it? What is the difference between a professional and an amateur?? Is it a high level of technical skills? Is it other things as well?? f you think you might be hard pressed to define professionalism with respect to IT, it may help to consider the following behaviours that IT professionals often exhibit: Producing quality work: Professionals aren't satisfied with simply completing the task--they desire to deliver the highest quality possible. Maximising knowledge: Professionals stay abreast of the constant changes in their field. Being innovative: Professionals are creative and use this ability to solve problems in new ways. Showing constant improvement: Professionals are always trying to improve upon their solution. Seeking additional or greater responsibility: Professionals seek greater control over what they do, and accepting greater responsibility is a means to this end. Teaching: Professionals delight in sharing their knowledge. Ignoring distractions or losses: Professionals understand and accept setbacks as a normal part of the process and don't allow failure to impact their goals. Understanding the importance of communication, appearance, and mannerisms: Professionals realise that the way they look, act, speak, and write impacts the way others perceive them. Possessing a good attitude: Professionals understand that a positive attitude can have a considerable impact on their success. Keeping up with ethics, regulatory, and legal issues: Professionals are cognisant of the ethical, legal, regulatory, and industry issues involved in their work. Comprehending a project's business aspects: Professionals understand the business aspects to the projects with which they're involved--often as well as the business stakeholders that are providing the requirements.
• #8: Australian computer society Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association Design Institute of Australia
• #11: "Designer" means an individual practising as a freelance or salaried designer or a group of designers acting in partnership or within other forms of association and includes: 2.1 Designers concerned with products and capital goods 2.2 Interior architects/interior designers & interior decorators 2.3 Designers concerned with graphic and visual communication 2.3 Designers concerned with textiles & fabrics 3  The designer's responsibility to the community 3.1 A designer accepts a professional obligation to further the social and aesthetic standards of the community 3.2 A designer shall act in keeping with the honour and dignity of the profession 3.3 A designer shall not consciously assume or accept a position in which personal interests conflict with professional duty 4  The designer's responsibility to the client 4.1 A designer shall act in the client's interests within the limits of the designer's professional duties 4.2 A designer shall not work simultaneously on assignments which are in direct competition without informing the clients or employers concerned, except in specific cases where it is customary for the designer to work at the same time for various competitors 4.3 A designer shall treat all knowledge of a client's intentions, production methods and business organization as confidential and shall not, at any time divulge such information without the consent of the client. It is the designer's responsibility to ensure that all members of staff are similarly bound to confidentiality 5  The designer's responsibility to other designers 5.1 A designer must not attempt, directly or indirectly, to supplant another designer who has a firm commitment with a client in relation to a particular project 5.2 A designer shall not knowingly accept any professional assignment upon which another designer has been acting without notifying the other designer 5.3 A designer must be fair in criticism and shall not denigrate the work or reputation of a fellow designer 5.4 A designer shall not accept instructions from a client which knowingly involve plagiarism nor consciously act in a manner involving plagiarism 6  Designer's remuneration 6.1 Before accepting an assignment a designer shall define exactly and comprehensively to the client the basis on which the total remuneration is calculated 6.2 A designer who is financially concerned with any company, firm or business which may benefit from any recommendations made in the course of the commissioned work shall notify the client or employer of this fact in advance 6.3 A designer who is asked to advise on the selection of designers shall accept no payment in any form from the designer recommended 7  Publicity 7.1 Notwithstanding anything elsewhere stated in this Guide to Professional Conduct, circumspect advertising may be properly employed by the designer to announce the practice and services offered. The media or other forms of communication used and the content of the announcement shall be dignified, becoming to a designer and characteristically free of any factor or circumstance that could bring disrepute to the profession. Information given must be truthful, factual and free from ostentatious, complimentary or laudatory expressions or implications 7.2 A designer may allow the client to use the designer's name for the promotion of articles designed or service provided, but only in a manner which is appropriate to the status of the profession 7.3 A designer shall not allow his/her name to be associated with the realisation of a design which has been so changed by the client as no longer to be substantially the original work of the designer
• #13: by Len Warwick CBE, ALIA(dip) President LIA UK and Republic of Ireland 1988/89, Honorary Life Member LIA Ireland Chairman, Warwick Butchart Associates Ltd., Cheltenham
• #32: “ written material ” such as journal articles, novels, poems, song lyrics, letters and reports; “ artistic works ” such as paintings, drawings, cartoons, graphic art, craftwork, photographs, maps and plans; “ musical works ”; “ dramatic works ” such as dance, plays, screenplays and mime; “ computer programs ”; “ compilations ” such as anthologies, directories and databases – the selection and arrangement of material may be protected separately from the individual items contained in the compilation; “ sound recordings ” such as CDs, cassettes and DAT (the particular recording itself is protected by copyright in addition to any work that is recorded – the music or story, for example); “ broadcasts ”: broadcasters have copyright in broadcasts of television and radio programs (this is separate from the copyright in the films, music and other material that they broadcast); “ published editions ”: publishers have copyright in the typographical arrangement of a published edition (this is separate from the copyright in works reproduced in the edition, such as poems or illustrations or music); and “ cinematograph films ” the visual images and sounds in a film.
• #33: In copyright terms, it’s not hard for something to be original: it really just means that the work isn’t a mere copy of something else.
• #34: A “ substantial part ” in this context is a part that is important or distinctive. A part may be important or distinctive even if it is a small part. When deciding whether or not a “substantial part” has been used, court will focus on the quality of the part used (that is, how important or distinctive it is in relation to the material it is taken from) rather than the quantity (that is, how much is used).