PI-13 Begins

The thirteenth quarter of Program Increment (PI) planning for IAM has begun. This quarter we are introducing a new concept to help ensure we focus on the most critical items for the University. We have committed to delivering 15 features this quarter including Office365 Opt-In functionality for incoming students (one of our 3 yearly goals). Additionally, we have tagged 16 features as objectives that we will track progress against but do not raise to the same level as our committed items. The committed items fall into four categories and are as follows:

Cloud Migrations (6 Items)

  • API Expansion to accommodate privacy data - Allow API customers to update privacy data via APIs, and will allow for the decommissioning of legacy CDWS infrastructure
  • Writing to new central IAM database in the Cloud - Begin writing data to our new Cloud-based IAM Database
  • Migrating HarvardKey Authentication to reference a database instead of a legacy LDAP - To support eventual server decommissioning decouple HarvardKey from on-prem LDAP servers
  • Migrate Provisioning gateway servers to the Cloud - Moving several on-prem hosts into the Cloud
  • Midas and App Admin migrated to the Cloud - Migrate two core applications to the Cloud to allow for server decommissioning
  • Silverpop loader fix and migration to Cloud - Address a Silverpop bug and migrate the server that exports data to the Cloud

Customer Commitments (4 features)

  • Two Factor simplification for Alumni - Simplify the experience for Alumni users by removing any reference to Two Factor authentication
  • Office365 opt-in via HarvardKey Self Service - Key Goal - Allow students to claim an Office365 mailbox via HarvardKey self-service
  • Planning with HMS for AD provisioning - Work with HMS to plan for eventual provisioning of HMS Active Directory via IAM
  • Loading of data for Emergency Broadcast Tool - Load emergency data into the new Emergency Broadcast Tool (ITCRB project)

Improvements (3 features)

  • Provide function to bulk license users for Office365 - Provide backend functionality to allow users to be licensed for O365 use en masse
  • Work with security to define a future AD directory structure - Define a future model that will meet University AD needs in a scalable and secure fashion
  • Combine MIDAS helpdesk roles to improve experience - Combine two Midas roles that Helpdesk staff use to improve user experience

Stability (2 features)

  • Stabilize IIQ performance (Environment and Code) - Address performance issues in Provisioning (IIQ) to ensure stability and scalability
  • Security Fix for Authentication - Upgrade a core component of Authentication infrastructure

You can review the detailed feature listings of all 31 features (committed and objectives) as well as the new format we'll use for our end of sprint reports in the two attached documents.

 

 

 

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