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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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TDD does not have to be a rigid process to have value

I like the idea of TDD, but some of the articles and blog posts I’ve read about it feel a little too much like they’re saying “Don’t question our cult! Do what I say!” to me. When proponents of TDD push the “You absolutely have to do it this way or you’re doing it wrong!” […]
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TDD and To-Do Lists

As I continue to experiment with TDD, I find that I often need to make notes to myself so that I don’t forget to come back and do something later, whether it be add a corner case test, refactor some code, or add another piece of functionality that I realized I need. It wasn’t until […]
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TDD Study Group: Week 1

As you’ve no doubt heard from another blog post/email/coworker if your an employee here at SEP, we’re beginning some TDD Study Groups here at SEP. One of the goals of the TDD Study Groups is to have some visible output from each of the groups, so we can spread some information further than just those […]
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Stop Doing Kanban! Start Learning

This is a session from the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2012 (LSSC12). Learning is the new currency. Practices and processes will come and go; only the wise survive. If you don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing, Kanban nor Lean, nor any other cool new thing will deliver the maximum benefit. And if […]
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2012 Best Places to Work in Indiana Rankings Announced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 3, 2012 (INDIANAPOLIS) — Companies raising the bar with their  workplace practices were recognized tonight at the Indiana Roof Ballroom by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. The organization unveiled rankings for the 70 companies from throughout the state that made the 2012 Best Places to Work in Indiana list (which was […]
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This is What I Would Have Said

4 Best Place to Work in Indiana!!  How fantastic is that?!? At the awards dinner every year, the top winner has to say a few words when they receive their award.  Well, we didn’t have to give a speech this year, but if we had, maybe this is what I would have said… We are […]
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Training using Study Groups

Since I have started working at SEP I have been invited to a number of training sessions where an outside trainer is brought in and we get a mix of lecture and exercises for a couple of days then the trainer goes home. The last training I attended was a Jeff Patton training on Story […]
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Case Study: SEP Use of MadCap Flare

Leading Provider of Customized Software Solutions Uses MadCap Flare to Synchronize Three Online Help Systems and Print Manual with New Software Releases New case study from MadCap Software examines how single-sourcing and Microsoft TFS integration for version control enable SEP to deliver three online Help systems and a PDF manual from one central Flare-based project. […]
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One Small Step Toward TDD, One Small Leap for SEP

One small Step Toward TDD I have been reading about TDD and unit testing for about 7 years now and have not fully adopted TDD. It has a ton of time tested benefits including writing less production code, writing simpler code, making your code easier to change, making your code easier to test and the […]
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