{"id":2096,"date":"2012-09-17T21:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2022-08-21T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T16:21:56","slug":"fim-best-practice-get-detailed-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/fim-best-practice-get-detailed-requirements","title":{"rendered":"FIM Best Practice: Get Detailed Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In any IT project we start with a requirements list. With IAM it can be hard to define just what a single &#8220;requirement&#8221; is &#8211; when a person creates an account, or adds a member to a group they think of that as &#8220;one action&#8221;. However when automating you need to break the action down into all its constituent parts, and you need <em>specifics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>How often have we heard it: &#8220;We&#8217;d like to synchronise HR to AD&#8221; followed by an expectant air of &#8220;OK so now you know the requirement, off you go and do it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But what it really involved? For example just for provisioning we may have to:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li>Import people&#8217;s details from a number of HR tables,<\/li>\n<li>Provision user accounts to variable OUs based on department or location,<\/li>\n<li>Create a mailbox in variable locations,<\/li>\n<li>Create home and profile folders in variable locations,<\/li>\n<li>Set up terminal services profile,<\/li>\n<li>Add a bunch of default groups,<\/li>\n<li>Send a notification email,<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And we haven&#8217;t even got to moves, changes and deprovisioning yet!<\/p>\n<p>So you see how &#8220;one&#8221; requirement may actually be 20, 30 or more once you get down to the details. Without this level of detail you can neither estimate the workload nor have a hope of implementing what is actually required.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In any IT project we start with a requirements list. With IAM it can be hard to define just what a single &#8220;requirement&#8221; is &#8211; when a person creates an account, or adds a member to a group they think of that as &#8220;one action&#8221;. However when automating you need to break the action down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practice","category-fim-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkp1o-xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}