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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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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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LSSC 2010 Call For Papers

From https://www.limitedwipsociety.org/2009/11/15/lean-software-systems-conference-2010-atlanta/ Lean Software & Systems Conference 2010 Atlanta The first Lean Software & Systems Conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA between April 21st and 23rd 2010. Registration and the Call for Papers is now open at atlanta2010.leanssc.org The first 50 registrants enjoy a super early discount rate of $800 plus entry to […]

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Is source control branching a good strategy?

I’ve always wondered about whether creating source control branches for every feature is a good idea at all. Isn’t one just postponing the problem of the big merge come release time? I’ve always felt that working off the mainline, checking in frequently, and creating very small features is the best way to go, since at […]

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Don’t Single Me out!

In my few days of being a developer, I’ve heard and seen lots of talk about Singletons. Things like Singletons are teh suck. Don’t use them. EVAR. to Singleton’s saved my life and marriage! In fact, I might’ve been the person that said both of these… gasp! I never like to speak in absolutes, so […]

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Chris Shinkle presents Kanban at QCon in San Francisco

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — San Francisco, CA- Chris Shinkle, Development Manager at SEP presented “Kanban and the Dreyfus Learning model” on the Kanban/ Lean Software Development track at QCon this week. The QCon Conferences are organized by the software community, for the software community. The result of these efforts is a high quality conference experience […]

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On Leading – Expectations

The cause of almost all relationship difficulties is rooted in conflicting or ambiguous expectations around roles and goals. Whether you are dealing with the question of who does what at work, how you communicate with your daughter when you tell you her to clean her room, or who feeds the fish and takes out the […]

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Emergent Interview Design

I’m heavily involved in recruiting here at SEP. We recently did something that we haven’t done in at least 15 years: hired an experienced project manager. In our history, we’ve always always always grown our own; it’s too critical of a position to put in the hands of a stranger. The risk/criticality hasn’t gone away, […]

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SEP Managers Receive ASQ – Certified Software Quality Engineer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Milwaukee, WI, November 11, 2009 — The Certification Board of ASQ (American Society for Quality) is pleased to announce that Paul Pringle, Operations Manager and Jeff Lambert, Engineering Manager have both completed the requirements to be named an ASQ-Certified Software Quality Engineer (ASQ CSQE). As such, Paul Pringle and Jeff Lambert have […]

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