Summary

Through the chapters of this book, you learned about the role of the API product manager, API lifecycle, maturity models, customer journey, designing effective API experiences, infrastructure, business and product metrics for APIs. These frameworks would enable you to get the insights that you can use to set an effective product strategy for your APIs.

Putting together a product strategy can be challenging but bringing together market research and customer stories enables you to establish an inspiring mission and vision that your team would be excited to work towards. While well-defined long-term goals will help you communicate to your stakeholders how you plan to realize the vision for your product, short-term goals help various teams involved with your product to plan their work and find alignment as you work towards shared goals.

APIs are no different from any other products. You have a unique opportunity to bring customer empathy and data-driven decision-making to...