Finance Systems
Knowledge
Knowledge
The technology was used to consolidate TJX Corp financial prior to Hyperion HFM
What is Microsoft Excel?
The city/town of the first two TJX Maxx stores that opened in 1977
What are Worcester and Auburn, Massachusetts?
The three pillars of scrum
What are transparency, inspection, and adaptation?
This team delivers solutions that replicates repetitive human actions, and is sometimes mistakenly called the "RPA Team"
What is the Intelligent Automation Team?
The largest key on the standard US keyboard (look quickly!)
What is the space bar?
In 2016, this 3rd party application took responsibility for US Fixed Assets tax reporting
What is PWC's TDS (Tax Depreciation Services) SaaS Application?
The first acquired international chain in 1990
What is Winners of Canada?
This is the portion of the team's velocity that is available for any given iteration
What is capacity?
This team is responsible for the infrastructure across data centers, stores and DCs with a variety of functions needed to support the software stack.
What is Application Hosting Services?
This country invented tea
What is China?
This Oracle product functionality is used to configure and facilitate approvals in Oracle EBS
What is Approvals Management Engine?
The Zayre spinoff, sold to Brylane Inc in 1997 (hint, not named after me)
What is Chadwick's of Boston?
The aspect of the continuous delivery pipeline, in which new functionality is developed, tested, integrated, and validated in preparation for deployment and release
What is Continuous Integration (CI)?
This team has 3 functional areas: Operations for 24x7 front line support; product management for voice, audio, desktop, and collaboration; and program management for I&O
What is End User Services (EUS)?
This test stands for the letter "T" in the acronym CAPTCHA, which is used to prove you're not a robot
What is the Turing Test?
This is the UK banking platform that is called for domestic ACH transaction
What is BACS (Bankers' Automated Clearing System)?
TJX acquired this chain in 2003, which was subsequently sold to a private equity firm in 2008
What is Bob's Stores?
A graphical representation of the work left to do by an agile team vs. time
What is a burndown chart?
This security team is focused on technologies that support secure authentication & authorization
What is the Identity & Access Management Technology Team?
What is your skin? (!!!)
The month and year that Oracle EBS got upgraded to version 12.1.3 (2nd to last major upgrade)
What is September 2011?
TJX acquired Austrlian off-price retailer Trade Secret in this year
What is 2015?
This is what INVEST stand for, as it applies to good user story definition
What is Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable?
This solution delivery team owns POEM, the purchase order entry management solution
What is Global Buying Tools?
France shares it's longest border with this country (hint... it's not in Europe!)
What is Brazil? (French Guiana is an overseas department of France)