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SEP Selected as a Nominee for TechPoint’s Innovation Mira Award
TechPoint has announced the nominees for its 25th annual Mira Awards, highlighting the most innovative companies, universities, and organizations in Indiana’s tech sector. The awards celebrate achievements across various categories, including the Innovation Partner of the Year.
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I’ve submitted 2 proposals for sessions at the Agile 2010 conference. They can be previewed here: https://agile2010.agilealliance.org/node/6079 https://agile2010.agilealliance.org/node/6250 You have to create an account to view them. But, once you do, you can leave comments and browse other Agile 2010 session proposals. Let me know what you think!
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Managing Distractions
I’ve recently started to practice the pomodoro technique. Holy F! This super simple practice has uncovered how much time I completely waste in a workday (not to mention my non-work time). I feel like I’m cheating myself and my customer (read employer), so I’m going to do something about it. I’ve never read much of […]
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SEP Named a 2010 Best Place to Work
Monday, February 22, 2010 (INDIANAPOLIS) — A total of 70 Hoosier companies from throughout the state are being honored this year as a “Best Place to Work in Indiana” for their strong workplace environment that values employees. The program, now in its fifth edition, is managed by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Forty-seven of the […]
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My LSSC 2010 Presentation
In addition to chairing a track, I will also be speaking at the LSSC conference to be held April 21-23, 2010 in Atlanta GA. My presentation on using Lean and Kanban in a contracting environment will by on Wednesday the 21st from 5:00pm – 6:00pm in the Kanban Track. I’ve posted the abstract here: Kanban […]
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Yet Another Pomodoro App
No, it isn’t called YAPA. Basically, I wanted a gentle introduction to the Pomodoro Technique, so I thought, what better way to introduce myself to it, than to build a pomodoro app while pomodoro’ing (new word, probably). So I whipped up an app that uses some of the fancy taskbar features of Windows 7. If […]
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Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010
The Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 is the place to learn about "the next wave of process innovation": Lean, Pull Systems, and Kanban. If you are interested in applying Lean concepts to software and systems development then this is THE conference to attend. It will have the best people in Lean and Kanban, and […]
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Deconstructing “always” and “never”
How many times has a statement (requirement) like one of the following been given to you? (only to find out months later that there is an important exception that was not given to you): Field X will always be a positive integer! (except for the case where we decided long ago to populate it with “-9999” […]
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Apprenticeship/Mentorship Success!
One of my apprentices from this past summer just accepted a job… at another company. I’m totally pumped for him, but most of the people I brag to about it say the same thing with the same reaction: <sigh_of_defeat>Shoot, we didn’t get him.</sigh_of_defeat> As if we failed miserably. For me, the apprenticeship/intern process has the […]
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balsamiq mockups
We recently used Balsamiq Mockups to redesign a set of web pages. I’ve done a lot of designs on paper, in HTML, using FrontPage and even Visio before, and now I know, I was doing it the hard way every time. Balsamiq offers a way to present user interface designs quickly and easily. It has […]
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