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IT & Identity4 minUpdated 2026-04-30

What is joiner, mover, leaver (JML)

Joiner, mover, leaver is shorthand for the identity lifecycle: provisioning on hire (joiner), role and access sync during tenure (mover), and revocation on exit (leaver). The category is the single highest-volume IT ticket type in every organization we have looked at, and the one most amenable to agent-based automation.

Joiner

Account creation across every system the new hire needs. Group memberships per role. License assignments. MFA enrollment. Hardware provisioning. The work is sequential by tradition and parallel by architecture. Run it parallel and it fits in thirty minutes.

Mover

Role change. Promotion. Transfer to a different team or business unit. Access requirements change. The mover case is where access creep happens, because the new groups get added but the old ones rarely get removed. The agent reconciles against the new role and removes the stale grants.

Leaver

Termination. Revocation across every system the user touched. Per-adapter risk summary on each call. Hash-chained audit log on every action. Sixty seconds end to end on the standard case.

Frequently asked

What is the difference between JML and SCIM?

SCIM is a protocol. JML is a process. SCIM is one of the implementation paths the JML process uses to talk to a downstream identity provider. The process is bigger than the protocol; the protocol is the wire format.

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