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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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On tests and testing

Hello, gentle reader. Please allow me to rock your entire human face by dropping this truth bomb: Tests are about more than testing. “Obviously!” you yell, your riposte ringing out triumphantly against what is seemingly a rather anemic statement. The truth bomb has failed to detonate. Your entire human face remains unrocked. If you’ve ever […]
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SEP Book Club and Review for Creating Great Teams

Reading Lately — Teams, Orgs, and Vision

Previously I shared my “Reading Lately” list with a few books about motivation. Each publication from that list is still relevant in my thoughts, actions, and discussions with others at SEP. This time I am sharing 4 books that have greatly influenced the way I think about working collaboratively with people — whether on a […]
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CommunityHERO: A Lesson in Collaborative Design

Here at SEP, the PXT (product experience team) has been making a push for more collaborative design on the projects we’ve been involved in. By collaborative design I mean including not only designers, but engineers, product owners, and project managers in the design process. We’ve had success with it on several of our past projects, […]
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Task 2, Part Two. Who does Agile Testing?

One day, at my team’s standup meeting, I declared that everyone on the team was a tester. Then I drew this picture: Tester is the base class and Developer is the child class. A specialization of a tester. I don’t know if it was the picture I drew. But the devs and tester on that […]
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Does Story Size Matter?

During my last couple of planning meetings, I started asking the question “Can we break this story up?”. I have been getting pushback from developers with questions like: “Does the story really need to be broken down? “Why can’t we add a bunch of tasks to the story instead of breaking it up?” “Isn’t it the same […]
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Task 6: Map out what your exploratory testing looks like

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the 30 days of testing challenge that I am doing.  When I first read this task my first reaction was. I don’t do exploratory testing. But after thinking about it a little bit I concluded that I do it without thinking. I do it all-the-time. Here […]
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Task 4: Read the Agile Manifesto and reflect on the implications of your role

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the 30 days of testing challenge that I am doing. Today I complete Task 4: Read the Agile Manifesto and reflect on the implications of your role. The Agile Manifesto has been around since 2001. It is a set of values that 17 thought leaders in […]
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Task 3: Find a Video about Agile Testing and Watch it

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the 30 days of testing challenge that I am doing. Today I watched “Testing Strategy: New Model, Better Outcome” by David Laribee. Takeaways I had no idea there were so many models of testing Tests are inventory. One of the eight wastes of Lean is too much […]
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Task 2: What is Agile Testing?

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the 30 days of testing challenge that I am doing. Task 2 of the challenge is to write down what I think Agile Testing is. As I was thinking about this one night, I decided to jot down my thoughts. Introspective The term Agile Testing confuses […]
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