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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

Having learned about the metrics frameworks in Chapter 13, you know how to actively find a balance of leading and lagging indicators in your metrics so that you can establish the right input and output metrics that your team can actively work on to have the desired impact on business goals. Having a balanced view of the data and being able to pick the right metrics for each initiative that your team works on is key to keeping your efforts focused and prioritizing the right items on your product roadmap.

Being able to narrate the strategy behind the metrics you choose and the changes in those metrics over time enables you to tell a compelling story to your stakeholders and leaders to gain their trust and support for your product initiatives. Now that you have learned how to tell stories with data, you will learn about identifying biases in your interpretation of data and eliminating blind spots in your metrics in the following chapter.