Leadership Articles
SEP Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work (Again!)
In 2010, the iPhone 4 debuted on the market, users logged in to a brand new app called Instagram, and SEP became an ESOP. That’s also the year we first received the Best Places to Work recognition. While a lot has changed since 2010, one thing hasn’t. SEP has once again been named one of […]
Five Strategies for a Happy and Healthy Software Maintenance Team
Software Maintenance Teams provide a broad array of services, customized to the industries they support. As a software development consultancy, our portfolio includes industries like energy, aerospace, healthcare, medical devices, precision agriculture, and others. The products we build live on Desktop, Embedded, Mobile, Web, and Cloud platforms. With such a diversity of industries and platforms, […]
New Leads Need to be Replaceable
The title I wanted… “New leads will want to have a succession plan in place from day 1 because it’s so much harder to detach yourself from the project if you start thinking about it on day 500” … but it didn’t fit in the character limit, so here we are. Replaceability Replaceable 👏 does […]
New Leads Need “Domains of Execution”
Okay, sure the title really needs to be “New leads should totally define a list of clusters of responsibilities that every project has so that they can make sure the project is appropriately supported” …but you get it. What’s a “Domain of Execution”? A domain is some cluster of responsibilities that your project will require […]
New Leads Need to Give Real-Time Permission
Okay, okay, so the title should really be “New Leads (probably) Need to Practice Real-Time Permission (if they’re still uncomfortable with conflict, especially when a power dynamic is involved)”, but I feel like you get it. Where does “Real-Time Permission” come from? “Real-Time Permission” is a concept I barely acknowledged when I first read Patrick […]
New Leads Need Self Directed Radical Candor
Hello! If you are new to Radical Candor, check out the concept directly from Kim Scott herself, Radical Candor in 6 minutes I should also mention that the title should really be “new leads who are terrible at thinking on their feet in front of a crowd need self directed radical candor.” It’s just… not […]
New Leads Need to Prep for Staffing Conversations
One of the things I did terribly as a new lead was participate in staffing conversations for my team. Mainly, I was just unprepared in realizing the scope of what adding or removing a person meant on the distribution of responsibilities that a single team has to balance. In this blog post, you’ll find a […]
Poppe Guthrie Named a 2020 Tech 25 Award Winner
TechPoint, the growth accelerator for Indiana’s tech ecosystem, has announced the Tech 25 Class of 2020. Now in its sixth year, the Tech 25 Awards honor a prestigious selection of twenty-five individuals who are critical and exceptional performers helping to grow Indiana’s tech and tech-enabled companies, but who—not being the CEO or other top executive—don’t […]
Fifteen Fives at SEP
Staying Connected While Remote: How the Fifteen Five Helps SEP Maintain Team Culture At SEP, we rely on face-to-face interaction. Team huddles, standups, retros, pairing at a desk, walking by each other in the hallway, playing a game over lunch—we see each other all day, every day. Each of these interactions is an opportunity to […]
SEP Named a Best Place to Work for 10th Consecutive Year
SEP was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana. This 14th annual program was created by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and Best Companies Group. This statewide survey and awards program is designed to identify, recognize, and honor the participating employers in Indiana with the leading workplace cultures. The list […]
Rose-Hulman Honors Raman Ohri with Career Achievement Award
SEP President Raman Ohri has been named a 2017-2018 Rose-Hulman Career Achievement Award Winner. Each year, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology honors alumni with the Career Achievement Award. Recipients of this award have graduated 20+ years ago and are selected based on their achievements within their communities and respective professions. Raman joined SEP in 1993, […]
SEP’s Jon Fuller Named 2017 TechPoint Tech 25 Award Winner
Director of Software Engineering Recognized for Impact on Indianapolis Tech Community Jon Fuller, Director of Software Engineering at SEP, has been named a 2017 TechPoint Tech 25 Award winner. This prestigious recognition celebrates twenty-five individuals who are critical and exceptional performers helping to grow Indiana’s tech and tech-enabled companies—leaders who don’t always receive the public […]