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Gartner "How to Organize Your API Development to Ensure Consistency and Quality"


The question is, “How should software engineering leaders in charge of API strategy build teams that ensure API quality and consistency?” The answer is to develop the central API team into a federated API platform team that ensures API quality and consistency.”

Download to learn what Gartner recommends leaders do to organize API development including:

  • “Create platform teams that support the consistent and rapid delivery of APIs”
  • “Create a team in charge of API strategy, defining governance, operating the organization’s API management platform, and the formation of a community of practice”
  • “Provide adaptive governance capabilities that deliver the right governance outcomes across control, agility and autonomy against API producer and consumer needs”

Gartner API Strategy

¹ Gartner, How to Organize Your API Development to Ensure Consistency and Quality, Andrew Comes, Mark O'Neill, Shameen Pillai, 5 May 2022
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