Governance Program

The governance of APIs at scale across the enteprise is a daunting challenge for anyone, but expecially for anyone who hasn't done it before. Understand what API governance means and how business and engineering groups across an enterprise will respond and be involved with API governance will always be a challenge, requiring an experience and well thoughout out approach. API Evangelist can help you stand up an API governance program, helping you map the existing landscape of HTTP APIs, develop policies and rules, and help you review internal, 1st-party, or 3rd-party APIs. We can assist you in standing up and assisting your team in operating the governance program for as little or as long as you need, in the following areas: - **Strategies** - Work with you on the high level business and engineering strategy for why API governance counts. - **Policies** - Establish the business policies required to keep API governance aligned with the organization. - **Rules** - Craft the rules that govern the technical details of APIs, but also the wider API operations. - **Reviews** - Providing ongoing reviews of API operations, APIs, and teams, sharing the feedback you need. - **Experience** - Translating the technical details of API operations into the real world human experiences. - **Guidance** - Publishing and evangelizing the guidance teams need to consistnetly prodouce and consume APIs. Your API governance can start strategically or tactically, from the bottom-up or top-down, and be centralized or federated. We can help you understand the pros and cons of each approach and help you talk through what combination is best for your organization. We can come into your organization and stand up a single Git repository, and begin standing up API governance for your enterprise. API Evangelist can help stand up and advise on your API governance, but the rest is up to you. We provide the information, artifacts, tooling, and guidance to help guide your API governance forward. We can be there to answer questions and work with teams, but the API Evangelist approach focuses on developing your internal capacity and strenghtening your API operations independent of any vendor solution, and independent of your internal politics--taking a Git-driven and API standards approach to API governance.