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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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SEP Event: 10 Years of Agile

Wednesday, September 23rd | 3:00pm – 4:30pm Agile transformation, Agile adoption, Agile implementations…Topics discussed in many books, blogs and conference presentations. But what does it look like in “real life”? As many know, it’s not as simple as it sounds. Join Chris on an agile journey encompassing the last 10 years at SEP. The journey […]
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How IoT is Making Your Home Safer and Smarter

The Internet of Things (IoT) shows no sign of slowing down. As an industry-leading provider of home security solutions, Allegion™ is focused on identifying ways to employ the IoT concept – that many of today’s common objects will have Internet-related capabilities – in its upcoming products. The Schlage Sense™ system, unveiled at the 2015 International […]
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SEP Book Review of Predicting the Unpredictable

Book Review: Predicting the Unpredictable – Pragmatic approaches to estimating project schedule or cost by Johanna Rothman

Synopsis On every software project I’ve worked on, I’ve been asked two questions: “How much does it cost?” and “When will it be done?” Given enough experience on software projects, one would think this question would be easy to answer. The author explains why she thinks this is so hard. One reason she mentions is […]
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Mothballing VLAT

Be deliberate.  It’s probably the thing I soapbox about second only to continuous feedback.  In line with practicing what I preach I have to make an announcement.  Recently in agreement with management I put VLAT in mothballs for the time being. What I want to do is explain why we drew the conclusion to mothball […]
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SEP Announces New Corporate Partner

Camptown welcomes Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) to the Camptown family as a Mt. McKinley Sponsor.  SEP, an employee-owned local software product design and development company, was started in 1988 by engineers who thrived on challenging projects and continuous learning. They wanted to build a company where software engineers worked directly with clients to streamline innovation […]
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meHive, an experiment in product development

From time to time, SEP makes forays into product development.  As a service company, we face many challenges as we do this, the single biggest challenge being allocation of dedicated resources to work on the product.  Since our revenue is intimately connected with our people, it is difficult to tie them up in an effort […]
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A different kind of retro…

This week I facilitated a retrospective for a project that I wasn’t involved with. Immediately after the retro, I asked a few people for their input on how the retro went. One person in specific really enjoyed how I framed and conducted the retro. That person was relieved to participate in a retro that wasn’t […]
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Mutation Testing – Totally a Thing

Reposted from the original host Mutation Testing Mutation testing is a way to verify that your code is covered by tests. Oh? Go on… “What, like code coverage?” you may ask. Or, you may say “you want me to test my tests? That’s stupid. You’re stupid” which are not dissimilar from my reactions to mutation […]
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Meet the New SEP Interns

Emma Caraher Software Engineering Intern School: Purdue Major: Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Working On: Web Application to Manage Construction Machinery When I discovered SEP almost two years ago at the Purdue IR fair, I was really impressed. From what I was told, SEP invested far more into the interns than what I’ve heard from […]
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