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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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Starting Full-Time At A Place That Is Hard To Define

I knew I could grow there—fast. That’s how I respond when asked why I chose to work for SEP. Subsequently, my co-workers later told me they felt they ‘just knew’ I was a fit for this culture and the work we do here when I asked them why I was chosen. Knowing which job to […]
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The Intern Perspective

I like to think that after 5 internships, I hold a few records at SEP.  For instance, I have had more first-days at SEP than anyone else, and consequently I have had the most exit-interviews as well.  I am the resident expert on New Hire Cookouts and receive more E-bucks every year than a full-time […]
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DevOps Guild

Although the term DevOps is fairly new to most of us I believe the culture at SEP and the practices we follow embrace DevOps, but we have not taken credit for it yet. This group will seek to deepen our understanding, technical practices, and help define strategy around DevOps for SEP. Mapping Last week we […]
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SEP Book Classics

SEP Book Classics – What’s that? Well, good question. SEP Book Classics started from a discussion in an Appreticeship Patterns book club at SEP. Our group was discussing how to help new members to the company gain a shared language/knowledge of many of the books that we’ve read at SEP. The problem then, was to […]
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Meet the 2016 SEP Interns

Jessica Vaughn Software Engineering Intern School: IUPUI Major: Informatics Project: Web-based Management System for Construction Equipment “I chose SEP because of the opportunities as well as the culture. SEP cares about its employees and wants them to grow and learn and feel comfortable. There are also a variety of projects, which means lots of different technologies […]
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Leveling-up Our Intern Program – With Purpose

Over the last few years we have been making incremental changes to level-up our intern program. For previous summers we have solidified the purpose of our internship program…we have defined the outcomes we want to see from our program…and we have collected some goals that we want to shoot for while our interns are with […]
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Why We Mentor at SEP

We started a Formal Mentorship Program in 2013 with a really simple vision statement: Become awesome(r) faster. – Raman This statement was accompanied by a graph that looks something like this: Slope of Awesomeness Right now, we have 8 new SEPeers in process (3 fresh-outs, and 5 fresh-ins), but the mentor group still has a […]
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Why Professional Development v2?

Why Professional Development? Professional Development (PD) is vital to SEP’s business and culture. PD keeps us current and able to win new projects PD improves our ability to deliver software to clients PD helps us to continuous grow and improve our own abilities PD allows us to explore new ideas, tools, and techniques It is […]
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Book Review: Predicting the Unpredictable – Pragmatic approaches to estimating project schedule or cost by Johanna Rothman

Synopsis On every software project I have been on I’ve been asked 2 questions, “how much does it cost?” and “When will it be done?”. One would think that given enough experience on software projects that this question would be easy to answer. The author explains why she thinks this is so hard, one reason […]
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