Value Creating API Development

This course is based on the popular book API Economy 101 and is taught by one of the authors!

‍What will you learn?

Innovate solutions to business problems by starting with customer needs and identify wider team
Identify all necessary internal and external APIs to help achieve the intended benefits and avoid the anticipated challenges
Create business models and analyze business risks and opportunities
Prepare for the continuous API product development

‍Who should participate?

Business and IT experts, architects, project managers, product owners, service and UX designers, software developers, integration experts
Training does not require prior knowledge

"Value creating API development" - course, in Finnish (Arvoa tuotta API-kehittäminen) is available in English or Finnish. Contact us to get a quote on a tailored course for your organization. A public course in Finnish is available next on May 20 & 21, 2021 - October 16 & 17, 2021

Program

1 day

8.30 CET Registration and morning coffee

9.00-10.30 CET What is an API?

Exercise: Let’s get acquainted with each other
All the things you can you do with APIs
What is an API and what is not?
How do you tell your client, team, or manager why APIs are important?

10.30-10.45 CET Coffee break

10.45-12.00 CET Added value from the API

Who is your customer, what is what you offer and how do you produce it?
Added value experiences, API as a tool for added value
Teamwork: Product-Market fit, API value proposition, and API identification

12.00-13.00 CET Lunch

13.00-14.30 CET API Monetization: Business models from API to platform

The best business model for me?
Teamwork: API business model design and cost-benefit analysis
Familiarity with and assessment of API risks affecting the business

14.30-14.45 CET Coffee break

14.45-15.30 CET User community as a customer

API consumer communities as a source of innovation
Understand the life and daily life of a developer
Exercise: The developer experience is a new black, where does it come from?

15.30-16.00 CET Summary of the day

2nd day

8.30 CET Registration and morning coffee

9.00-10.30 CET Getting an API - How do I do it?

“API included”: What is the product description of a good API and what comes with the API, whether you like it or not?
API uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, sound, and emotion
Exercise: What to do when shopping for API development?

10.30-10.45 CET Coffee break

10.45-12.00 CET For partnership and external use - open interfaces

Enter the API economy through partnerships
Benefits and business opportunities and limitations of the public API
Teamwork: Who to partner with?

12.00-13.00 CET Lunch

13.00-14.30 CET Enjoyed internally - APIs for your own use

Creating APIs for internal use - how is that different from external APIs?
Teamwork: Requirements Collection and Minimum Viable API Architecture
Publish quickly, measure, and learn

14.30-14.45 CET Coffee break

14.45-15.30 CET Ready to take the next steps?

APIs change more than just information management
Lead your organization to change: from API projects to products
Exercise: Simulation game

15.30-16.00 Summary of the training

Meet the educators

Marjukka Niinioja

API Business Consultant, Trainer, Speaker, and Book Author

Osaango

Marjukka Niinioja is a speaker at API conferences, co-author of API Economy 101 book, and creator of the free "Introduction to API Economy" course with Tampere University. “Mother” of the lean, open and business-oriented APIOps Cycles method. 10+ years of experience with API Economy from retail, energy, ICT, construction and traffic industries, among others.

If you have any questions, contact us or read the frequently asked questions.

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