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SEP Wins TechPoint’s 2025 Exceptional Employer Mira Award
SEP Recognized as Indiana’s Top Tech Employer, Winning TechPoint’s Prestigious Mira Award Westfield, Indiana - SEP has been named Exceptional Employer by TechPoint at the 26th annual Mira Awards. This award recognizes companies that are developing talent through skills-based hiring…
Strong Company Culture Helps Software Engineering Professionals Succeed By: William “Rusty” Wilburn, Biofutures Magazine 2011 Challenging as it is, getting a startup off the ground is just the first step in creating a successful business. Building a company culture that attracts the brightest employees and best clients is critical to sustaining long-term success. Software Engineering […]
Jeff Gilbert Receives Honor Alumni Award From RHIT
Jeff Gilbert, President and Founder of SEP, will be honored Saturday, October 2, 2010 with a Rose-Hulman Honor Alumni Award. The recipients are selected based on their (a) loyal, unselfish and meritorious service in furthering the interests of Rose-Hulman, (b) contributing to the national interest of our country, (c) professional achievement. Rose-Hulman honors four alumni […]
If you’re anything like me, you probably get a TON of email each and every day. In addition, you probably get emails that span a conversation over multiple days. Well, Outlook 2010 has this amazing feature called, Conversations. This will transform your inbox to look/feel more like a threaded forum (or, more like your gmail […]
SEP Sponsors Agile2010 to Support Global Agile Transformation and Innovation in Software Development
Carmel, IN – July 14, 2010 – SEP, a 100% employee-owned software product development company, announced its sponsorship of Agile2010, the industry’s leading global conference on Agile software development, held August 9–13 in Orlando, Florida. As a sponsor, SEP continues its commitment to advancing the practice of Agile product development, Lean thinking, and Agile transformation. […]
What’s the point? This book focuses on Toyota’s manufacturing process and the Lean attributes. The book takes you through the philosophy and the bare bones implementation of the production models and practices that make the Toyota Way sustainable in other companies. The interesting point of the book was that there were many companies claiming to […]
Book Review – Coaching for improved work performance – Ferdinand Fournies
What’s the point? This book focuses on the idea that you can get better performance out of employees through positive coaching. Rarely do negative actions result in anything other than fear and poor performance. The book gives techniques and tips for improving performance and tackling potential problems. Strategies are presented for dealing with employees that […]
Book Review – User Stories Applied For Agile Software Development – Mike Cohn
What’s the point? This book takes you through the formulation of user stories, from perspectives that should be considered (user, tester, manager, etc…) to some guidelines that should be applied (Is it testable, is it estimateable, etc…). The book shows how a team can use estimated user stories to determine releases and iterations. How was […]
IndyTechFest is teh awesome! I was privileged enough to be a speaker alongside some other ridiculously awesome regional speakers (and even had a few of them IN my presentation!)… star struck having @dburton, @timwingfield, @skimedic, and other community leaders like @myotherpants and @maggielongshore in the audience. I am truly humbled. Thanks to the organizers for […]
Okay, I don’t think it’s a secret that I REALLY enjoy working at SEP. However, I’m going to continue to brag about this company. Recently, SEP was awarded the #1 BEST place to work in Indiana! That is some exciting stuff. Today, when I went to Google and searched for “beast place to work in Indiana”, […]
