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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 Event: Tips for Effective Visualization and Why Forecasting Fails

Location: SEP’s Building | Studio Theatre | 4 Center Green | Carmel, IN Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Why Forecasting Fails Universally, estimating software stories and tasks is hated by developers and most normal people. Almost as universally agreed, the results obtained from forecasting using those estimates are dismal. This session begins by listing the top […]
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10 Years of Agile

Presented by Chris Shinkle, Director of Innovation at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
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Why Professional Development v2?

Why Professional Development? Professional Development (PD) is vital to SEP’s business and culture. PD keeps us current and able to win new projects PD improves our ability to deliver software to clients PD helps us to continuous grow and improve our own abilities PD allows us to explore new ideas, tools, and techniques It is […]
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From Jokes to Critiques: Feedback the Way You Want It

Unintentional Metaphors So I had this ah-ha moment yesterday while sitting on my couch with my fiancé. He was reading to me what I think was a ridiculous thread of Reddit Dad Jokes, and we just couldn’t stop laughing. I was trying to work on a lightning talk for our SEP Product Guild and he kept refocusing me […]
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Visual Design for Mobile Apps: meHive Case Study

I don’t often get to share a behind the scenes look at my visual designs, to walk others through the iterations leading up to the version that actually is used. But now that meHive, a relationship management app a team of SEPeers built, has been retired, I thought this would be a good time to […]
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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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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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