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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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You’ve probably seen the movie and if not you should (has it really been 11 years since it came out?). You’ve probably seen at least one the fantastic Liberty Mutual commercials. This one. Or maybe this one. If not, you should! Those are definitely some feel good moments. Things that make you feel all warm and […]
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Center for Performing Arts Partnership
SEP is committed to helping the community in which we work and live. SEP is involved with the arts through the education and outreach initiatives presented by the Center for Performing Arts. SEP focused their partnership on activities that benefit the community. The Carmel Farmers Market was a natural fit for SEP to present the […]
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SEP’s First Startup Weekend
By Carolynn Andrews, Business Intern SEP hosted its first Startup Weekend, a concept pulled from Startup Weekend where individuals (in our case employees) brought product ideas and spent the weekend developing it. The first night, 10 ideas were pitched. The group voted on the 10 ideas, and spent an entire weekend together with the following […]
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SEP Ranked in the Top 20 Best Places to Work
Thursday, May 05, 2011 Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) was honored to be nominated in the top 20 Best Places to Work in Indiana. (INDIANAPOLIS) — Companies striking the right balance of taking care of employees while operating a successful organization were recognized tonight at the Indiana Roof Ballroom by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. The […]
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SEP Nominated as a 2011 Best Place to Work
Best Places to Work in Indiana 2011 PRESS RELEASE February 22, 2011 Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) was recently named as one of the 2011 Best Places to Work in Indiana. The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, BizVoice®, Inside INdiana Business, the Indiana Economic Development […]
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Rocket Surgery Really is Easy!
I just finished reading Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug (perhaps you know him from his other book Don’t Make Me Think). Here’s what I thought. What’s the point? Learn how to do usability testing yourself to gain most of the benefits of hiring someone to do it and lose most of the negatives […]
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Book Club: ProGit
Book Club Foreword A couple years ago I brought up the idea of doing a book club here at SEP because I had participated in a couple before coming to SEP, but we called them SEDG (coined by Steve McConnell in Professional Software Development). I don’t really like that term, so we called it book […]
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Cool Resource for Software Engineers
Last year we got rid of our traditional annual review system and replaced it with sensible component parts (career guidance, skill assessments, etc.) It would take several posts to explain the reasoning and mechanics, so just trust me when I say it was a Good Thing ™. One of the replacement systems is “one-on-ones”, a […]
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SEP Ranked #1 Best Place to Work in Indiana
Press Release May 6, 2010 (INDIANAPOLIS) — Companies with strong workplace practices – rooted in respect, teamwork and good communication – were recognized on May 6, 2010 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom as the Indiana Chamber unveiled rankings for the 70 companies from throughout the state that made the 2010 Best Places to Work in […]
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