Drawing the Big Picture with Data

In Part 3, we learned about the variety of product metrics you can set across infrastructure, product experience, and business metrics. But each metric only shows you a part of the big picture. To understand the full context, you have to view different metrics in relation to each other. Metrics can be used to figure out how the product is doing, find ways to improve it, and set goals for the different teams.

As you now know, application programming interfaces (APIs) are built, distributed, and supported by a number of different teams. All these teams and stakeholders have their own set of focused goals they track and optimize. However, as the product manager, you need to understand how these metrics relate to each other so that you can understand how product changes impact the metrics that some of the other teams might be following.

In this chapter, you will learn about the various methodologies used for establishing key metrics across organizations...