Finance Systems
Knowledge
TJX History
Agile & SAFe
Know your IT Towers
The Mystery Bag
100

The technology was used to consolidate TJX Corp financial prior to Hyperion HFM

What is Microsoft Excel?

100

The city/town of the first two TJX Maxx stores that opened in 1977

What are Worcester and Auburn, Massachusetts?

100

The three pillars of scrum

What are transparency, inspection, and adaptation?

100

This team delivers solutions that replicates repetitive human actions, and is sometimes mistakenly called the "RPA Team"

What is the Intelligent Automation Team?

100

The largest key on the standard US keyboard (look quickly!)

What is the space bar?

200

In 2016, this 3rd party application took responsibility for US Fixed Assets tax reporting

What is PWC's TDS (Tax Depreciation Services) SaaS Application?

200

The first acquired international chain in 1990

What is Winners of Canada?

200

This is the portion of the team's velocity that is available for any given iteration

What is capacity?

200

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?

200

This country invented tea

What is China?

300

This Oracle product functionality is used to configure and facilitate approvals in Oracle EBS

What is Approvals Management Engine?

300

The Zayre spinoff, sold to Brylane Inc in 1997 (hint, not named after me)

What is Chadwick's of Boston?

300

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)?

300

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)?

300

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?

400

This is the UK banking platform that is called for domestic ACH transaction

What is BACS (Bankers' Automated Clearing System)?

400

TJX acquired this chain in 2003, which was subsequently sold to a private equity firm in 2008

What is Bob's Stores?

400

A graphical representation of the work left to do by an agile team vs. time

What is a burndown chart?

400

This security team is focused on technologies that support secure authentication & authorization

What is the Identity & Access Management Technology Team?

400
Your body's largest organ

What is your skin? (!!!)

500

The month and year that Oracle EBS got upgraded to version 12.1.3 (2nd to last major upgrade)

What is September 2011?

500

TJX acquired Austrlian off-price retailer Trade Secret in this year

What is 2015?

500

This is what INVEST stand for, as it applies to good user story definition

What is Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, and Testable?

500

This solution delivery team owns POEM, the purchase order entry management solution

What is Global Buying Tools?

500

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)