Harvard University Information Technology's Identity & Access Management (IAM) program team hosted a demo session December 2 to show benefiting parties and other key stakeholders the results of the team's efforts during the most recent Program Increment (PI). As part of the IAM program team's commitment to Agile methodology — not only at the level of development, testing, and deployment, but also in larger-scale organizational planning — the team's two-week sprints are also structured within twelve-week program increments made up of six sprints each. These PIs address overarching, longer-term business objectives for the team, and provide a larger-scale milestone structure to be served by the sprints. Every PI is closed by a demonstration for external product owners receiving deliverables under that increment.

Rainer Fuchs, CIO of Harvard Medical School and co-chair of the IAM Executive Committee, attended December's PI demo and commented that there has been "tremendous progress ... the whole of Harvard benefits from this work." Demonstrations highlighted completed features that mapped to each of the business objectives of the PI, specifically:

• Implementing a data model to support migration of HMS and Alumni records into the master Harvard identity database (IdDB)
• Developing data migration methods, including provisioning Microsoft Office 365 for HMS and importing Alumni data via an identity API
• Initiating work on account management functionality (to be continued in the next program increment), including a self-service process for claiming new Harvard user accounts
• Creating network designs to support HUIT's critical goal of moving 75% of existing applications — plus all new applications — off premise and into the cloud over the next three years

Other accomplishments during the program increment included:

• Deployment of a "FindPerson" API for the Student Information System (SIS) program
• Rollout of a new Connections internal directory API, plus ‘Facebook Printing’ capability for Connections, for Harvard Law School
• Deployment of a new PeopleSoft import for all Schools, per the Provost’s request

For more information on December's PI demo, you can view the slide deck — and if you'd like to attend future program increment demos, please email IAM community program manager Gretchen Grozier to get on the list. To see details on all IAM program increments, as well as summaries of each sprint, please visit the IAM website's Releases page for the most up-to-date information.

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