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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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Lessons Learned as a Scrum Master

I have been a Scrum Master for my team of 8-10 since November of 2011, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. I was very lucky to land this position. Previously I had done development and testing projects, but my only lead experience was for a team of myself […]

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My Ideal Software Project: 7 Values I Believe In…

At SEP, we have very diverse teams, clients, and projects. With all of that variety and diversity, comes a lot of variation in how projects are run. Almost every project, in my experience, has used different processes and techniques. I was recently inspired by one of my coworkers, Jennifer, by a letter that she wrote […]

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Code Reviews – the way it should be?

This past Monday and Tuesday, I attended all-day training sessions led by David Hussman. He’s a big Agile guy, but more than Agile he kind of picks and chooses the parts he believes work – i.e. he’s huge on TDD and pair programming and continuous integration. Pointedly, he said if you don’t have the chops […]

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SEP Startup Weekend

SEP Startup Weekend is by far the most fun thing I do at work. A couple years ago, in a conference room, a handful of SEPeers were discussing the book ReWork. We all had mixed reviews on the book, but one thing was for certain: We all needed to participate in this current startup culture. […]

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SEP Blog Battle: Good Idea, Bad Idea

Bad Ideas We all have them It’s true, as much as we hate to admit it. I’ve had my fair share, and I’m bound to have even more. That doesn’t mean I’m going to share these ideas with the world or run off and implement things now, but it does mean that I have an […]

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TDD Study Groups Week 3 – Mocks and Stubs

Last week in our TDD Study Groups was mocks and stubs and how to effectively utilize them along with TDD. Readings Test Double Patterns Mocks Aren’t Stubs Mock Roles, Not Objects Mocks Aren’t Stubs How tied is our knowledge (the difference between Fake, Dummys, Stubs and Mocks) to our current framework? RhinoMocks.Automocker Discussion Is this […]

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TDD Study Groups Week 2 – Refactoring

Two weeks ago, we discussed refactoring in our TDD study groups, and it’s time for some updates and statuses from what we’ve learned (from completing the stories) as well as some discussion on the readings we did. But first… Blogging Update For our group, we’ve got a new blog up and running. Derek Plote has […]

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TDD Study Group: Week 1

As you’ve no doubt heard from another blog post/email/coworker if your an employee here at SEP, we’re beginning some TDD Study Groups here at SEP. One of the goals of the TDD Study Groups is to have some visible output from each of the groups, so we can spread some information further than just those […]

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Stop Doing Kanban! Start Learning

This is a session from the Lean Software and Systems Conference 2012 (LSSC12). Learning is the new currency. Practices and processes will come and go; only the wise survive. If you don’t know why you’re doing what you’re doing, Kanban nor Lean, nor any other cool new thing will deliver the maximum benefit. And if […]

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