APIs for Product Managers

What it does

Technology skills are part of the holy trinity of PM skills: business, technology, design and there is a strong case both for and against product managers having technical skills. A guide to APIs for people who have no idea what it means.

Make sense of REST, GET, endpoints, headers and payloads once and for all

As product people, we’re often referred to as the ‘techie ones’ by business, sales and marketing stakeholders. We get invited along to external meetings to go through the details of how an API integration might work, we attempt to explain (with great patience and a smile on our faces) the technical restraints to our business colleagues of a particular feature and we evangelise the impact new technologies can have on our products and our business. Yet our engineers still sneer if we attempt to be remotely technical when tackling problems. We’re managers, not engineers, in their eyes. And rightly so; we’re not engineers and we shouldn’t try to be. Product Managers have a penchant for fancy…from departmentofproduct.com

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