Business & Tech Overview
Who is the product team?
Apex has an internal chatbot called ______.
What is AskApex?
This is the name of the CEO of a major investment bank who also was a DJ at Lollapalooza.
Who is David Solomon?
This is a chart tool used to track project progress.
What is a Gantt chart?
This Apex C-Suite Exec once bench pressed 500 pounds.
Who is Andy Lientz?
What is the Software Development Lifecycle?
This is Apex's CRM.
What is Salesforce?
The time it takes for first impressions to be formed.
What is 7 seconds?
The RACI Matrix is a tool to help you think about your stakeholders and how you may interact with them during a change process and stands for Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and _______.
Responsible: People or stakeholders who do the work. They must complete the task or objective or make the decision. Several people can be jointly Responsible.
Accountable: Person or stakeholder who is the “owner” of the work. He or she must sign off or approve when the task, objective or decision is complete. This person must make sure that responsibilities are assigned in the matrix for all related activities. Success requires that there is only one person Accountable, which means that “the buck stops there.”
Consulted: People or stakeholders who need to give input before the work can be done and signed-off on. These people are “in the loop” and active participants.
________: People or stakeholders who need to be kept “in the picture.” They need updates on progress or decisions, but they do not need to be formally consulted, nor do they contribute directly to the task or decision.
What is Informed?
This was the name of the company that Peak6 acquired in 2012 and renamed to Apex Clearing.
What is Penson Financial?
This is the new tool being implemented to manage agile deployment.
What is Runway?
These are the three instances of Zendesk used by Apex.
What are AFS IT, HR & Payroll Zendesk, and Apex Service Center.
This is the name of the application used to book conference rooms.
What is Teem?
This is a type of change an organization undergoes to optimize how an organization runs internally. Examples include fine-tuning the management hierarchy, redefining certain job descriptions, revamping key administrative procedures, or right-sizing staff.
What is a structural change?
This was the year Apex acquired Silver Management Group.
What is 2021?
These are the 6 client business lines at Apex.
What are Fintech BD, Hybrid BD, Institutional BD, Fintech Non-BD, Traditional Advisor, Institutional Non-BD.
This is Google Looker's querying tool for accessing BigQuery tables in the Datalake.
What is SQL Runner?
55% of first impressions are made by this.
What is what we see (visuals)?
These are the three components of the Iron triangle of project management. Which is used by project managers to evaluate three project constraints and how they may affect success.
What are Schedule (Time), Budget (Cost), and Scope.
This is the punishment Bill Capuzzi completes for attending a meeting late.
What is 1 push-up for every minute he is late.
This is the approximately total Apex Assets Under Custody (AUC).
What is $123 Billion?
This is the central repository that will record the description and other metadata for all BigQuery tables and fields.
What is Data Catalog?
These are the four personality types in a DISC profile.
What are Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness
These are the four key project roles.
What are executive sponsor, project manager, and subject matter expert, and business analysts.
What is Portland, Dallas, Chicago, and Belfast?