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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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Positive Deviance

What’s that? Another SEP Blog Battle you say? Of course I’ll chime in! What’s that? The first topic I’ve got is Positive Deviance? Ok… What the heck is Positive Deviance? Well, what do I think it is based on that statistics course I took 15 years ago, and based on more recent dealings with tracking […]
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We’ve Been There, Done That

It’s Blog Battlin’ time here at SEP again, and though the rules have changed the sentiment is the same – Get out there and write. So, here goes nothing. If you haven’t guessed from the title my topic is ‘Been There, Done That’. Experience It’s fairly obvious the intention behind the phrase, but how does […]
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Blog Battle: What Can I Learn From My Teenage Self

I got a good laugh when I opened the Blog Battle e-mail containing the above prompt. I’m fairly certain I would disregard just about any message teenage me tried to send along. I’ve learned lessons from my myriad of mistakes growing up and I’m certain any advice he has left to give shouldn’t be heeded […]
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What Mobile Platform Should We Target?

We often get clients interested in mobile solutions to their problems. One of the biggest questions they have for us is “what platform should we even target?” iOS? Android? Windows Phone 8? What about BlackBerry? Symbian? Firefox OS? How about Ubuntu Mobile? Do we even want something native, or is a properly tested and designed […]
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Passwords, P@55w0rD$, Schmasswords

I have too many passwords.  I admit that I don’t always use a unique password on websites that I rate low on my ‘do I care if I get hacked’ radar.  And, unless forced, I’m terrible at remembering to change them from time to time.  On the plus side, I don’t keep passwords on post-it […]
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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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Code Reviews – the way it should be?

This past Monday and Tuesday, I attended all-day training sessions led by David Hussman.  He’s a big Agile guy, but more than Agile he kind of picks and chooses the parts he believes work – i.e. he’s huge on TDD and pair programming and continuous integration.  Pointedly, he said if you don’t have the chops […]
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Inaugural AgileIndy Conference a Success

As a leader in the software industry, Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) strives to stay abreast of the best practices, tools, and thought leaders in the community. In 2012, AgileIndy,  a non-profit organization devoted to raising awareness and acceptance of agile practices, announced that they would host their inaugural conference. This one day, multi-track event covered […]
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Code Review Observers

How many people does it really take to ensure that code is correct?  I’m faced with a bit of a paradox.  On one hand, having ~20 people on a code review seems like overkill.  It has the potential to slow down reviews and create a bottleneck to getting anything done.  On the other hand, what […]
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