Fun with FINEOS
Politics & Policy
Do you DFML?
Agile, actually
Who is who?
100

FINEOS is based out of this non-US country

What is Ireland

100

Massachusetts employees are eligible for up to this many weeks of combined family and medical leave per benefit year.

What is 26 weeks.

100

Errors in lower environments are tracked with this jira ticket prefix.

What is EDM?

100

“SCRUM” originates from this sport and refers to a move when the game is restarted after the ball went out of play.

What is Rugby?

100

This Senior Project Manager at Nava was born and raised in Buenos Aires, went to school in Montreal and now lives in New Orleans.

Who is Julieta Jakubowicz?

200

This is the last environment to be updated with the latest FINEOS version.

What is the IDT (staging) environment?

200

On January 1, 2023, the maximum weekly benefit was raised to $1,129.82 to reflect an increase to what state statistic?

What is the state average weekly wage.

200

This DFML staff member, formerly the CPS (FINEOS) product owner, is now the new EO for agents.

Who is Justin Leader?

200

Agile projects have a 64% success rate, whereas projects under the competing methodology known as _____ only have a 49% success rate.

What is waterfall?

200

This Product Manager at Nava lives in the “Rust belt” area of NY and enjoys sledding with her kids or visiting family in Canada.

Who is Jill Symonds?

300

The term “Benefit year” means the same thing as this term in FINEOS?

What is entitlement period?

300

In order to incentivize employees to use PTO for short leave periods, many PFML programs, including Massachusetts’, have implemented this policy unpopular among claimants.

What is the one week waiting period.

300

PFML technology infrastructure is managed by this vendor.

What is Smartronix?

300

This report type commonly used by Agile software development teams shows the amount of remaining work over time.

What is the burndown chart?

300

This Floridian Navanaut worked as an English teacher in Vietnam with the United Nations Volunteers and loves a good cinnamon roll.

Who is Tariro Chinyanganya?

400

Fineos recently launched this tool that shows the current health of the FINEOS Cloud infrastructure.

What is StatusPage? https://fineos.statuspage.io/

400

Piloting a case management model similar to WIC and training sessions for employer resource groups are two of the recommendations coming out of what recent Nava-led research initiative?

What is the Underserved Communities work stream.

400

Massachusetts started to collect contributions from eligible employers/employees to fund the PFML program in this year.

What is 2019?

400

This Agile system was developed in Japan by Taiichi Ohno, an Industrial Engineer and Businessman, for Toyota.

What is Kanban?

400

This DFML staff person, whose parents are first generation Americans, was formerly a lawyer representing clients on social security disability.

Who is Lisa Shepard?

500

The employer review requirement generates on a claim as the result of what action?

What is marking the cert doc as received and satisfied?

500

In 1919, the Maternity Protection Convention of 1919 was adopted by this fledgling UN agency still in operation today?

What is the International Labor Organization

500

DFML sits in the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development which as of 2023 is now managed by this newly appointed Secretary.

Who is Lauren Jones?

500

This mathematical theorem commonly used in manufacturing can be expressed as: lead time = WIP/throughput

What is Little's Law?

500

As the newest Triverus Project Manager, this person supports the Triverus feature team (trick question)

Who is Charlie Cedrone? (Dean Valoras is the Triverus Program Manager)

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