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New API

1. API Product Strategy

  • Customer Journey Canvas - Map real user needs without fixating on a specific API, first. This is your opportunity to automate and smoothen the clunky or dated business process. Users don’t want to click through a UI or do multiple extra steps, they just want “stuff to work”. This is where APIs can really help.
  • Domain Canvas - Align on concepts
  • API Value Proposition Canvas - Define value, not endpoints and find out if there is an existing API to reuse or buy to fit the need.
  • API Business Model Canvas - Ensure viability of your potential API product.
  • Get familiar with the API Audit Checklist (concept phase) to know what is required, and share with your API consumers to get feedback.

2. API Consumer Experience

  • Validate your plans with your consumers, and plan how to onboard them.

3. API Platform Architecture

  • Business Impact Canvas - Check risks and mitigation needs
  • Capacity Canvas and Location Canvas plan architecture for the right scale

4. API Design

  • Interaction Canvas - Plan interaction model
  • Choose the right interface pattern (REST Canvas, Event Canvas, GraphQL Canvas) based on the API consumer and architecture needs
  • Draft the OpenAPI or other contract
  • Do the first two phases of the API Audit Checklist and share with your API consumers to get feedback.

5. API Delivery

  • Follow internal CI/CD, test automation, and release practices

6. Do the full API Audit, usig the API Audit Checklist and prepare for publishing your API

7. API Publishing

  • Expose APIs securely and clearly to the right audience with the right documentation and processes.

8. Monitoring and Improvements

  • Use metrics and feedback to track API performance and drive continuous improvement.