API are not just an integration technology performing some complicated actions in the background. Even though it doesn’t do something you can touch and feel, it is a product. API have capabilities, features, and instructions. Things that differentiate it, and bring value. They have needs that are critical to its success – just like any other product.
The success of your Product(API) is determined by the pace developers are adopting it.
If the word “API” is in your landscape as the answer to growing your organization’s profitability, this session is dedicated to helping you. In this talk you’ll understand the importance for bringing Developer Experience to the start of your product development, and bringing developers to the front of decision making. We’ll highlight the “Dos and Don’ts” of adopting a successful API strategy at large scale Enterprises. Finally, we’ll review successful ways of talking about APIs as Products.
16. Prototyping & Testing
Designs telling resources and actions
Client apps consuming them
Validate with users (customers)
17. What About API
Instructions?
A product manager:
“I don’t know what’s best
in class.”
“Show me what success
looks like.”
Minimal valuable docs:
• Getting Started
• How-to Guides
• API Reference
• Change Log