welcome to use the apiops cycles method

fits many needs

APIOps Cycles can be used for designing API solution or strategy not just for designing and developing a single API.

collaborative

APIOps Cycles is collaborative method and makes sense to people who are not into software development and APIs.

Faster

APIOps Cycles creates faster results by making sure everyone understands what we are doing and we design and build only what we need.

Lean

By focusing on the right things we eliminate the 8 wastes of Lean management and reduce lifetime costs of our APIs.

business-oriented

APIOps Cycles helps you start and focus with business needs. If your API doesn't have a clear business model or serve a customer need, you are wasting time, money or other valuables by building it.

Open

APIOps Cycles is licensed with CC-BY-SA 4.0 and the basic method is free, use it or suggest improvements.

how apiops cycles works?

Business First with API Canvas

API Canvases help your architects, solution owners, product managers and business analysts answer these and many other questions: Which APIs are missing, which APIs will bring the most value? Who are your API consumers? What are the benefits and costs?

Mind the Developer Experience

Publishing an API does not guarantee it will be used. More adoption of an API may mean more API consumers contacting the support. The Mind the developer experience phase contains ways to ensure your API can be found, tried and supported by your intended API consumers, especially developers.

Minimum Viable API Architecture

Each API has its own set of non-functional requirements. These often cost the most to fix later while being easy to handle in the first design phases. Traditional approaches concentrate on the project or solution level - not single API. The idea is to use the Minimum Viable Architecture approach so we design and build only as robust architecture as we need right now so we can optimize the work, schedule, complexity, and cost

With a good interface the API consumers do not know what technology is used to build the API. Nor do they need to know what the provider's internal data model looks like. Building APIs involves designing simple and useful data and interaction models. Use design style guides and standards like OpenAPI where possible.

The API Audit phase helps to confirm API designs comply to guidelines. API audit consists of checklists. Areas to check are business requirements, developer experience, standards and security. When in use, API management platform compatibility is also important. Note: The APIOps Cycles API Audit checklist is not exhaustive and does not guarantee secure APIs. The checklist is often used as basis for custom checklists.

Publishing an API involves publishing all assets needed to use and find the API. These can be technical, product management and/or marketing assets.

Monitor, Measure and Analyze

Use business and technical metrics to learn how your API works and how the developers and end-users use it.

Learn & improve

The goal of Lean is to improve so-called cycle time and quality. With Lean API Development and APIOps Cycles, it means you can make good APIs in a short time. And not just good, but better for business.

Start the cycle

What APIs should we have?How to improve our current API?How to design an API?

APIOps Cycles

method for lean api development

Great APIs need skilled people and a good method, which let's you create APIs as products - fast.
APIOps Cycles method is vendor & technology-neutral.

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