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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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Making and Changing Plans

We all make plans everyday. Small plans, big plans, short term plans and long term plans. We plan for retirement; we plan for the weekend and we plan for our next meal. We make plans for everything and hope nothing changes. But inevitably our best laid schemes gang aft agley. Gang’ing Aft Agley So what […]
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Changing Plans – Blog Jam

There is some friction between agile methodologies and the desire for upfront formal requirements that has really been bugging me lately. I often find myself wanting to have my cake and eat it too: I want clear and final requirements, but I don’t want to be forced to design an entire system upfront and drown […]
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Chris Shinkle Nominated for 2013 Brickell Key Award

Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) Director of Innovation Chris Shinkle has been nominated as one of six finalists for the 2013 Brickell Key Award. Awarded to two worthy individuals every year at the Lean Kanban North America Conference (LKNA), the Brickell Award recognizes those demonstrating outstanding achievement, leadership, and contribution to the Lean and Kanban community. […]
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SEP Presents David Hussman: Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar

A legend of Agile coaching, David Hussman will bring his insights and experiences to Fishers on Wednesday, January 23 at the Forum Conference Center. Forum Conference Center. Sponsored by Software Engineering Professionals (SEP), Hussman’s event will be open to the public. “We understand the importance of sharing knowledge within our community,” explains Director of Marketing […]
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Spec Driven Versus Client Satisfaction in Outsourcing

Chris Shinkle introduced us to the Kano model of customer satisfaction while internally presenting his Stop Doing Kanban, Start Learning lecture that he delivered at this year’s LSSC. The Kano Model of Customer Satisfaction: As an outsourcing partner, this model has direct implications for SEP. The Performance axis represents our client’s needs in a solution. […]
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Fitting SEP with a Quality System

SEP has had ISO-9001 Certification for nearly a decade. These credentials help support our work in FDA and FAA for clients. We’ve struggled with the notion of a quality system since the beginning. SEP enjoys a very strong advancement culture that continuously strives to organically improve most of its practice areas. The worry is that a […]
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Default Value

In .NET we’ve got this cool little language construct called default, that’ll give you the default value for any given type.  That is, null, for any reference type, or zero/false/DateTime.Min/etc. for value types. Here it is in action (nothing amazing going on here): var x =default(DateTime); So what if you don’t know the type you […]
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My Agile 2010 Sessions

I’ve submitted 2 proposals for sessions at the Agile 2010 conference. They can be previewed here: https://agile2010.agilealliance.org/node/6079 https://agile2010.agilealliance.org/node/6250 You have to create an account to view them. But, once you do, you can leave comments and browse other Agile 2010 session proposals. Let me know what you think!
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Alistair-style 2009 Resolutions

@panozzoaj righteously smited new years resolutions on twitter: Do you do New Year’s Resolutions? I view them as a retrospective instead of kaizen. So inclined to not do them and instead make changes throughout the year instead. Ok, maybe not quite a righteous smite, but he should have. If you wanted to change something, why […]
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