Summary
The API development team works together to build APIs that serve the customers; developers build applications using these APIs that serve the end customers. Even though the API development team is a few steps removed from the end customers, as we saw in the digital value chain, their work is crucial to enabling developers to build applications that impact millions of people across the world. Building APIs that lay the foundation for building innovative applications also unlocks innovation for developers across the globe.
You can build APIs iteratively and methodically to ensure that you are keeping up with the fast-changing needs of the customer base while keeping an eye on the business goals at all times. Working across the organization to bring together security teams, development teams, testers, developer evangelists, and sales and support teams to deliver APIs that are intuitive, coherent, and consistent is the most rewarding aspect of the role of the API product manager...