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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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Lessons Learned in Automated UI Testing

Automated UI testing can be tricky and is very easy to do wrong. At SEP we’ve done several projects using TestComplete; it is a nice tool, but the early days were painful. We made every mistake in the book, and learned our lessons the hard way. These days, our TestComplete testing efforts are pretty slick. […]

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SEP Named a 2013 Best Place to Work

Carmel, IN. – Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) is once again being recognized by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce as one of Indiana’s Best Places to Work. The Carmel based company joins 100 Indiana companies named as honorees of the award. The top companies in the state entered a two-part process to determine the Best Places […]

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SEP Startup Weekend

SEP Startup Weekend is by far the most fun thing I do at work. A couple years ago, in a conference room, a handful of SEPeers were discussing the book ReWork. We all had mixed reviews on the book, but one thing was for certain: We all needed to participate in this current startup culture. […]

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Plain language

“Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.” – Cicero This is the basis of Plain Language. The goal is to write documents (emails, web pages, manuals, proposals, etc) in an everyday language, without waffle, jargon, or ambiguity, so that the reader can easily find and understand the information […]

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The Optimistic Employee Owner

During a recent “blog-battle” here at SEP, we took on the topic of “The Optimistic [insert role here]“. So I’m going to take a little liberty and talk about why I’m an optimistic employee owner. For those not aware, SEP is a 100% ESOP (as of spring 2010). This has some nifty benefits such as […]

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Lessons From 2nd Grade Math Homework

Second graders are awesome (as is proven by this picture). It was truly an odd moment of inspiration when I saw his homework. Instead of my usual no-nonsense approach to homework (and too often life), I took a moment to appreciate that my youngest son had turned the mundane into something cool looking. Double bonus […]

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You Won’t Know, If You Never Ask…

I was recently copied on an email thread where some requirements were discussed between a project lead (Bob) and the client (Fred). (FYI – the names are made up) Bob asked Fred about a specific requirement that read (paraphrased): The Error Indicator should display every 60 seconds. My next task was to add this indicator […]

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Well Now You’ve Done It

Way to go. You broke it. You didn’t follow the directions. I told you that would happen. How are you feeling now, my customer? My co-worker? My son? My husband? Not so great, huh? So now you feel bad AND it’s still broken. And I’m sure you thought it was my fault already and now […]

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I Don’t Have Time

This phrase takes me back nearly 25 years to my first butt-kicking by a businessman with 40 years of experience on me. Nathan Fouch (father of one of SEP’s founders, Mike Fouch) was very blunt in saying that I needed to take better care of myself. It was great advice. Guess what I said? “I […]

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