Certified
API Product Owner

 

A Certified API Product Owner is able to lead the design and delivery of a new or existing API, to confidently engage in high-level design discussions to help shape the API using a digital product mindset, and take an active role throughout the API design lifecycle. This certification is pursued by product owners and product managers that wish to extend their leadership to API products used by customers, partners, and/or internal developers.

Demonstrated Skills

The earner has successfully demonstrated:

  • A working knowledge of essential HTTP elements, such as HTTP methods, response codes, and header fields to engage in technical discussions with API designers.
  • An understanding of the API product lifecycle.
  • The business of APIs, including business models and APIs as digital representations of business capabilities.
  • Collaborative API design and documentation using the Align-Define-Design-Refine (ADDR) API design first process.
  • Creation and hand-off of artifacts for collaborative API design and continuous feedback, including job stories and activity steps.

Certification Path

Note: Some courses are still being developed for this certification path. You can get started on your journey for this certification by completing the following courses:

As future courses are released, you will be notified as part of your certification path.