Ikenna® Governance Toolkit(IGT)
Unlock faster, higher-quality API delivery and stronger governance.
Below is my approach for diagnosing your current API delivery challenges, mapping a path to success, and guiding your team to improved API governance and a culture of continuous improvement.
1. API Product Delivery Assessment
Identify your biggest API delivery pain points.
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I start by understanding your pain points. I use a proprietary assessment tool to uncover the real blockers in your API delivery and governance.
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Unlike generic maturity models or best-practice checklists, my approach is tailored to your specific business goals. You’ll learn exactly where your team’s challenges lie and how they impact lead times, quality, and API developer satisfaction. This assessment ensures that every recommendation is tailored to your needs.
Ikenna® Governance Toolkit(IGT)
Unlock faster, higher-quality API delivery and stronger governance.
Below is my approach for diagnosing your current API delivery challenges, mapping a path to success, and guiding your team to improved API governance and a culture of continuous improvement.
1. API Product Delivery Assessment
Identify your biggest API delivery pain points.
-
I start by understanding your pain points. I use a proprietary assessment tool to uncover the real blockers in your API delivery and governance.
-
Unlike generic maturity models or best-practice checklists, my approach is tailored to your specific business goals. You’ll learn exactly where your team’s challenges lie and how they impact lead times, quality, and API developer satisfaction. This assessment ensures that every recommendation is tailored to your needs.
2. Ikenna®Delivery Canvas (IDC) & API Transformation Plan
Get a unified, data-driven view of your process
Using my proprietary Ikenna®Delivery Canvas, I help you map your API delivery lifecycle,identifying key stages, technologies, pain points, and handoffs that introduce delays.
I combine insights from the API Product Delivery Assessment and in-depth team interviews to form a comprehensive picture of your current state,and desired future state,including lead times and quality metrics.
From there, I work with your team to create:
A short-term A3 Improvement Plan(2–4 weeks) to deliver immediate results.
A long-term API Delivery Transformation Plan(6–12 months) that is a comprehensive roadmap for API governance transformation aligned with your strategic business objectives
3. A3 Improvement Cycles
Instil a culture of scientific, measurable progress towards API governance
My A3-style reports leverage the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle to deliver tangible improvements to your API governance process.
Each report doubles as a problem-solving record and scoreboard, ensuring everyone sees progress and understands the next steps.
Through a cadence of weekly sessions, I help your team learn how to embed governance best practices into daily API delivery work—creating a continuous learning cycle that drives sustainable change. This weekly cadence becomes the engine of your API governance evolution, ensuring that governance becomes a core part of your team’s DNA.
4. API Governance Team Model
Set up and improve your governance team to sustain progress.
Many organisations struggle with API governance because they lack a dedicated API Governance team.
I help you build your governance team, defining their objectives, roles, responsibilities and skills for effective governance.
I'll train your internal API governance champions on everything from governance strategy to automated style checks and other governance controls, ensuring they can maintain and expand best practices long after I’ve left. My Capability Model and Governance Model will support this.
Additionally, I assist in establishing an API Community of Practice (COP), complete with metrics to gauge effectiveness and foster ongoing improvement.
Together, these initiatives ensure that governance is embedded in your culture and processes.
5. API Delivery Automation Guidance
Reduce lead time and improve quality through automation.
From linting and breaking-change checks to APIOps/GitOps and consumer portals, I Provide Customized recommendations on tools and workflows that accelerate development while preserving quality.
My guidance covers the entire API delivery lifecycle: versioning, change logs, SDKgeneration, catalogues, documentation portals, and more. This ensures faster speed-to-market and a smoother developer experience.
Ready to Elevate Your API Governance?
If you’re looking to streamline your API delivery, reduce lead times, and ensure consistent quality and governance, let’s connect. Contact me to get started on your transformation.
Ready to Elevate Your API Governance?
If you’re looking to streamline your API delivery, reduce lead times, and ensure consistent quality and governance, let’s connect.
Contact me to get started on your transformation.