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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Types of product management roles

In the previous section, we learned about all the different stakeholders that product managers work with, but there are certain specializations that product managers also bring to the team. For example, a product manager with a background in marketing or sales could unlock growth strategies for the product and might be well suited to work with products that are in the growth life cycle.

There are many different types of product manager roles, and the specific responsibilities vary from company to company. However, some common product manager roles include the following:

  • Growth product manager: Responsible for driving user acquisition and engagement for a product, they often focus on metrics such as user retention and lifetime value
  • Data product manager: Responsible for creating products that leverage data to provide insights or drive business decisions
  • Platform product manager: Responsible for creating a platform that allows other...