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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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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 […]

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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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Summer Internship Opportunities at SEP

POST UPDATE: 3/1/10 SEP has filled all of our internships at this time. SEP will be traveling to Rose-Hulman (February 4th) and Purdue (February 11th) to interview students interested in software engineering internship opportunities at SEP. If you are not on one of these campuses, that’s okay too! Here are the details: SEP internships offer: […]

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Alistair-style 2009 Resolutions

@panozzoaj righteously smited new years resolutions on twitter: Do you do New Year’s Resolutions? I view them as a retrospective instead of kaizen. So inclined to not do them and instead make changes throughout the year instead. Ok, maybe not quite a righteous smite, but he should have. If you wanted to change something, why […]

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Deliberate Practice in Software

Agile 2009 Session Info Presenter: Mary Poppendieck Mary is well known as a lean software engineering leader, but gave this session talking about the idea of deliberate practice and our field. She referenced studies by Anders Ericsson about what it takes to be truly world class at something (she particularly focused on a juvenile music […]

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Liquidity in Information Work

Agile 2009 Session Info Presenter: David Anderson in an "open jam" session. Liquidity is the ability to easily turn one asset into another (not just money!). Anderson’s idea on liquidity in a software organization relates to the skills of the people on the team and how we assign them to roles/tasks. Let’s say we have […]

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