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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2024 Innovation Service Partner of the Year Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Innovation Service Partner, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named the Innovation Service Partner of the Year by TechPoint at the 25th annual Mira Awards. The Mira Awards, Indiana’s largest…
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Decisions we make every day are driven by cognitive biases designed to save time and energy. These mental shortcuts serve us well. Marketers have used this knowledge to build successful marketing strategies for many years. Armed with the same knowledge, is it possible for us to build more engaging products? In this video we’ll look […]
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Storylines: A Tale of Two Products
So, you say you want to build a product? Awesome. How do you get started? In the Days of Yore Day 1 Some people used to (and sometimes, still do) get dozens of people in a room and author this 200 page document that has a bulleted list of statements of what the software should […]
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Changing the Way Companies Innovate
Companies are searching for new ways to innovate. They’d like an innovation pipeline that results in successful products. They want to validate product ideas early and only develop those with a great chance of success. Innovation today requires a plan and new approach. Watch the presentation HERE!
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How I Dunning-Kruger’d Marketing
I find it easy to rattle off a few marketing ideas for software products. I’ve read enough HackerNews and pop-business books to know the gist of it. Got a product for agile development teams? Why not just run some LinkedIn ads that target scrum masters at software companies? Boom. You are welcome for this brilliant […]
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Using Game Thinking to Build Products that Delight Customers
Building great products requires focusing on your users. Chris Shinkle shares how SEP is using game theory to envision products as games, and apply gaming theories about the players’ journey to SEP products. Chris shares why considering long term user engagement from discovery to mastery is critical to delighting the customer. Long Version:
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Changing the Way Companies Innovate – World Usability Day
Chris Shinkle’s presentation at World Usability Day at IUPUI Campus, Indianapolis, IN.
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What? So What? Now What?
Tips for Effective Visualization presented by Larry Maccherone at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
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Ten #Failed Forecasting Plan Assumptions
Tips for Why Forecasting Fails by Troy Magennis presented at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP).
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10 Years of Agile
Presented by Chris Shinkle, Director of Innovation at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
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