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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. Nominees in this…
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Storylines: A Tale of Two Products

So, you say you want to build a product? Awesome. How do you get started? In the Days of Yore Day 1 Some people used to (and sometimes, still do) get dozens of people in a room and author this 200 page document that has a bulleted list of statements of what the software should […]
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Changing the Way Companies Innovate

Companies are searching for new ways to innovate. They’d like an innovation pipeline that results in successful products. They want to validate product ideas early and only develop those with a great chance of success. Innovation today requires a plan and new approach.
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How I Dunning-Kruger’d Marketing

I find it easy to rattle off a few marketing ideas for software products. I’ve read enough HackerNews and pop-business books to know the gist of it. Got a product for agile development teams? Why not just run some LinkedIn ads that target scrum masters at software companies? Boom. You are welcome for this brilliant […]
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Using Game Thinking to Build Products that Delight Customers

Building great products requires focusing on your users. Chris Shinkle shares how SEP is using game theory to envision products as games, and apply gaming theories about the players’ journey to SEP products. Chris shares why considering long term user engagement from discovery to mastery is critical to delighting the customer. Long Version:
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Chris Shinkle Isn’t Playing Around Anymore with Agile Amped at Mile High Agile 2016

According to Chris Shinkle, businesses that have been focused primarily on one thing (manufacturing hardware, developing new medications) are struggling to build the software that now drives… well, everything. Enter gamification. Gamification is more than just points and badges. Chris discusses how it can be used to increase engagement in users not of games but […]
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Changing the Way Companies Innovate – World Usability Day

Chris Shinkle’s presentation at World Usability Day at IUPUI Campus, Indianapolis, IN.
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What? So What? Now What?

Tips for Effective Visualization presented by Larry Maccherone at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
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Ten #Failed Forecasting Plan Assumptions

Tips for Why Forecasting Fails by Troy Magennis presented at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP).
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10 Years of Agile

Presented by Chris Shinkle, Director of Innovation at Software Engineering Professionals (SEP)
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