IAM Quarterly Priorities Set (PI-12)

For the past 3 years the IAM Program has been using Program Increment (PI) Planning to set quarterly objectives and ensure our tactical objectives align to our long-term roadmap while also balancing critical enterprise needs. This quarter (Fy'18 Q2, CY'17 Q4, PI-12) the IAM program will try a new process where we will publish our progress at the end of each Sprint (2 weeks). 

PI-12 will cover 6 Sprints and an additional Hardening/Improvement/Planning (HIP) sprint which will take us through the early new year and the critical post-Holiday season release window in early January. In this post we are publishing two key documents (see attachments below): our priority list that describes the 33 items that the IAM team has committed to delivering, and a second document that will summarize our progress against our key goals as well as track key operational metrics such as how many Applications have been protected by HarvardKey, and how many tickets have been managed by the IAM team.

There are 4 critical goals for PI-12:

  • Cloud Migration - LDAP (8 Priorities) - Expand Enterprise HLDAP system to allow the decommissioning of 2 legacy LDAP systems and support the migration to the cloud by the end of June. Additionally improve, harden, and stabilize the HLDAP infrastructure to allow for expanded requirements.
  • Customer Commitments (12 Priorities) - Twelve significant customer commitments. Examples include provisioning HKS AD from University IAM systems, Office365 opt-in design for delivery in March, addressing FAS lapsed student system access, allowing Harvard to become an InCommon Research and Scholarship entity, and partnering with the HUIT Messaging and Communication Team on critical planning efforts for O365 expansion.
  • Cloud Migration (7 Priorities) - Continue efforts to move all IAM systems out of the 60 Oxford Street datacenter by 6/30/18. Most efforts involve creating Cloud based alternatives to services that live in 60 Oxford Street and then make significant changes to legacy IAM systems to no longer use systems on premise
  • Security and Stability (6 Priorities) - Address issues that will make the IAM systems more manageable, more protected and predictable for customers

We will post our next update on Progress at the end of Sprint 1 in the week of 10/10. For any questions about this process or the information included in the attachments please email Tim Vaverchak. 

Thank you,

The IAM Team

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