3 years ago

Category: Business, Database, Security, Data, Privacy

As more companies realize the benefits of an API-first mindset and treating their APIs as products, there is a growing need for good API product management practices to make a company’s API strategy a reality.

Many of the current practices of API product management have carried over from other products and platforms like web and mobile, but API products have their own unique set of challenges due to the way they are marketed and used by customers.

This guide lays out what is API product management and some of the things you should be doing to be a good product manager. Before you can embark on your API product management duties, you should first understand what are the high-level objectives with your company’s API initiative.

Usually API product metrics are aligned to one of three areas: Once you understand the high-level business objectives, you can create your internal goals and focus areas for you and the engineers.