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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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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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on so-called upgrades…
Over the years I’ve been a member of a few internet forums. At least two of them have been through serious ‘upgrades’ and I thought that their mistakes may serve as a good reference for any future software upgrades that I am involved in. Lessons Learned: Test, a lot. Forum A lost members rapidly because […]
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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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