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API Product Management

Product Strategy and Execution for the Digital Economy

Amancio Bouza and Andrea Zulian

Valuable and accessible products and services are the most important assets for any business, especially in the digital economy. Through clear step-by-step explanations and real-life examples, you’ll learn the foundations of the API Product Management methodology. It will help you to create, launch, and run digital products customers love.

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Valuable and accessible products and services are the most important assets for any business, especially in the digital economy.

Through clear step-by-step explanations and real-life examples, you’ll learn the foundations of the API Product Management methodology.

It will help you to create, launch, and run digital products customers love.

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Amancio Bouza

Amancio has received his PhD for his thesis on recommender systems, machine learning, and Semantic Web. He has several years of experience in tech startups, IT companies, and companies across different industries as Enterpreneur, Product Manager, Product Owner, Technical Lead, and Software Engineer

Andrea Zulian

I'm a product manager, agile coach, digital transformation consultant, and entrepreneur. I help companies and organizations to succeed in their digital journey applying Lean methodologies and intrapreneurship. As Team Leader and Senior API Product Manager for a leading telecommunications company in Europe, I developed and applied the API Product Management methodology launching successful digital products for the digital economy.

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Table of Contents

1.Foreword

2.About the Authors

3.Introduction

  1. 3.1What is API Product Management?
  2. 3.2Why are API Products Hard?
  3. 3.3What Will You Learn from this Book?
  4. 3.4Is this Book for You?
  5. 3.5How is this Book Organized?

4.Why API

  1. 4.1Digital Economy
  2. 4.2API Economy

5.Beginners Guide to API

  1. 5.1What is an API?
  2. 5.2Anatomy of an API
  3. 5.3What is a Digital Product?
  4. 5.4Paradigm Shift: From API to VPI
  5. 5.5What is an API Management Platform?
  6. 5.6Who are the API Stakeholders?
  7. 5.7Summary

6.Understanding Digitalization and Digital Transformation

  1. 6.1What is Digitization?
  2. 6.2What is Digitalization?
  3. 6.3What is Digital Transformation?
  4. 6.4Summary

7.Two Breeds of API: API Products and API Solutions

  1. 7.1Two Breeds of API and Paradigm of Change
  2. 7.2API Solution is the Breed of Operations
  3. 7.3What is an API Solution?
  4. 7.4What is the Business Value of API Solutions?
  5. 7.5API Product is the Breed of Tactics
  6. 7.6What is an API Product?
  7. 7.7What is the Business Value of an API Product?
  8. 7.8Summary
  9. IAPI Product Design

8.Human-Centered API Design

  1. 8.1What is Human-Centered API Design?
  2. 8.2Three Stages of API Program Maturity
  3. 8.3API Workshop I: Learn API
  4. 8.4API Workshop II: Asset Discovery and API Product Ideation
  5. 8.5API Workshop III: API Ideation and Validation
  6. 8.6Case Study: Identity
  7. 8.7Summary

9.Value Proposition Interface Canvas

  1. 9.1What is the Difference Between Value Proposition and API
  2. 9.2Foundations of Value Proposition Interface Canvas
  3. 9.3Value Proposition Interface Canvas
  4. 9.4Case Study: Identity
  5. 9.5Conclusion

10.Product Vision Board

11.Product Lifecycle Management

12.Stakeholder Management

  1. IIAPI Product Execution

13.Lean API Product Development

  1. 13.1Foundations of Lean API Product Development
  2. 13.2Overview of the Lean API Product Development
  3. 13.3Prototype-First in the Lean API Product Development
  4. 13.4Analytics-First in the Lean API Product Development
  5. IIIClosing

14.Hierarchy of API Design Principle

  1. 14.1Deliver Value to the Customer
  2. 14.2Provide Good User Experience to the Customer
  3. 14.3API Interface Design & Architecture (aka Philosophy)

15.API Product Pitch for Everybody

  1. 15.1Daily API Product Pitch
  2. 15.2How to Pitch an API Product?
  3. 15.3Effective Structures for an API Product Pitch

16.Blockers and Catalysts of Digital Transformation

  1. 16.1What’s at Stake
  2. 16.2Traditional Assisted Transport Service
  3. 16.3Assisted Transport Service as API Solution
  4. 16.4Assisted Transport Service as API Product
  5. 16.5Social Context Makes or Breaks Digital Transformation
  6. 16.6Blockers and Catalysts of Digital Transformation
  7. 16.7Conclusion

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