Context switching, the ability to intellectually move between different types of tasks, becomes more and more necessary as you take on more and more responsibility. In my personal journey I’ve shifted from engineer to leading teams to being a CEO. I’ve gone from being able to spend all week focused…

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. Why it matters When you get the timeline or duration activities wrong you can…

It is a good time to consider what will be important for APIs in 2023. A helpful starting point for this is to review and reflect on research that is available, in this case Gartner’s Hyper Cycle for APIs, 2022. The key themes that come through from Gartner’s research are: …

We surveyed over 50 organisations across Australia and New Zealand about the State of APIs with a section of the survey dedicated to API Security. We found confidence around maturity and security yet some missing ingredients of best practice approaches. …

API usage by industry shows that APIs are no longer just the domain of technology companies. APIs are being adopted across every industry, by all types of organisations, with the fastest growth in usage coming from more traditional sectors. When the idea of API driven growth comes to mind, you…

Market research, trends, and data indicates that APIs are one of the most strategically important areas of technology. APIs are the dominant communication and integration technology and this is only going to grow, if not explode. This article looks at selected research, trends, and data points that support this view. APIs: the majority of internet traffic and fastest growing …

API Products and API-as-Product refers to APIs that are developed and managed like products. Getting an understanding of what API Products means within your team will help you understand each other better and, ultimately, build better APIs faster. If you’re familiar with product management, product ownership or digital products then…

Building APIs at scale in an organisation means you will have an API Ownership Model, whether you’ve set it consciously or not. An API Ownership Model is the framework you use to determine where in the organisation APIs are invented, defined, built, delivered and maintained. Your API Ownership Model is…

Onboarding is known to be so important for new hires, yet we don’t apply the same level of attention to onboarding new team members. The main benefits for onboarding team members effectively are to increase their productivity faster and increase their experience of work (enjoyment, reward, satisfaction). Increasing productivity faster…