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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…
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SEP Named #1 2010 ‘Best Places to Work in Indiana’

Yesterday, SEP received top honors as the best place to work in Indiana in the small to medium-sized company category.  The rest of the state now knows what I’ve always believed in my heart: SEP is a great place to work!  It’s been a goal of the company for as long as I can remember. […]
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Extending Discovery into Business Value

Our industry often sets its context too small to address the question of why software is so expensive. While addressing costs, we missed optimizing the other side of the equation – VALUE. To move to a new level of optimization, we need to expand the context of our development process to engage more of the […]
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Is Developing Software REALLY expensive? Another thought…

The Lean Software and Systems Consortium conference in Atlanta left me with a lot to think about. My main reason to go was to learn more about becoming a more agile enterprise but that is a topic for another day. To summarize my previous post, software projects are often categorized as “too expensive”.  However, it […]
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Another Milestone for SEP

The Lean Software & Systems Conference started today. This is the most SEP has ever been involved in a conference in terms of sponsorship, speaking, and involvement. Kelly Wilson, our fabulous organizational and marketing ninja  did much of the legwork setting up the conference and Chris Shinkle is speaking today. We also have four people […]
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SEP Raises Funds for Red Cross

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January of this year, SEP decided to put together various fundraising efforts to help all those in need. “We wanted to have non-traditional ways of raising money,” said Brad Wolfe, System Administrator at SEP. “We held various events throughout the week, including a traveling […]
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Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010

The Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 is the place to learn about "the next wave of process innovation": Lean, Pull Systems, and Kanban. If you are interested in applying Lean concepts to software and systems development then this is THE conference to attend. It will have the best people in Lean and Kanban, and […]
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Summer Internship Opportunities at SEP

POST UPDATE: 3/1/10 SEP has filled all of our internships at this time. SEP will be traveling to Rose-Hulman (February 4th) and Purdue (February 11th) to interview students interested in software engineering internship opportunities at SEP. If you are not on one of these campuses, that’s okay too! Here are the details: SEP internships offer: […]
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LSSC 2010 Call For Papers

From https://www.limitedwipsociety.org/2009/11/15/lean-software-systems-conference-2010-atlanta/ Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st and 23rd 2010. Registration and the Call for Papers is now open at atlanta2010.leanssc.org The first 50 registrants enjoy a super early discount rate of $800 plus entry to […]
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Chris Shinkle presents Kanban at QCon in San Francisco

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — San Francisco, CA-  Chris Shinkle, Development Manager at SEP presented “Kanban and the Dreyfus Learning model” on the Kanban/ Lean Software Development track at QCon this week. The QCon Conferences are organized by the software community, for the software community. The result of these efforts is a high quality conference experience […]
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