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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the roles and responsibilities of the product manager as well as the skills required to become one. Although the role of a product manager is fairly vast, because of its collaborative nature, it can be quite rewarding. We learned about how, as a product manager, you will bring in various people from across the organization and from various areas of expertise to make a product that serves customer needs. You will get to work with experts in user research, design, development, sales, and marketing to unlock market opportunities and deliver innovative products.

We also dove into the unique responsibilities of the API product manager and how these complement the foundational role of a product manager. In the following chapter, we will dive deeper into concepts such as API governance and maturity.