Training materials for API product owners at adidas.

The training is meant to be facilitated by an instructor. It is following a "learning by doing" methodology with big emphasis on students solving a realistic problem for the first time with the facilitation of an instructor. The training is split in modules with each module touching upon different areas of responsibilities for an API product owner.

The actual content of the training is in the student and instructor folder.

Students are asked to NOT read the instructor materials until after the training.

The instructor welcome the students and prepares an ice breaker.

The instructor then explains the API Transformation initiative and why the practice of API Product ownership is necessary to successfully drive the initiative.

Students should then be grouped in teams of 3 people ideally. At the beginning of each module they will receive the student "message" which simulates an email from their line manager asking them to produce an artefact.

Each team is expected to have a time-slotted discussion of around 15-20 minutes in which they will decide the actions that should be taken to produce the artefacts. They are not expected to actually produce the artefacts, just a step by step guide explaining how would they do it.

All relevant action points identified by them should be written down in post-its. After 20 minutes each team would expose how would they proceed to produce the artefacts and what are the key elements to watch out for.

After all teams have exposed their proposals, the instructor will open a discussion to challenge each other's approach. In the instructor section of each module there is a proposal of activities that the instructor can use to contribute to the discussion. Each one of those proposals contributes to one or more "areas of investment" of an API Product.

During the training or at the end of the training, the teams can assign their proposals to one of the seven areas of investment for an API Product:

Please contact Zdenek Nemec, Jordi Fernandez Moledo in the case of questions.

This project is intended to provide the training materials for API product owners at adidas.

adidas is not responsible for the usage of this software for different purposes that the ones described in the use cases.

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NOTICE: The software has been designed solely for the purpose of providing API product owner training. The software is NOT designed, tested or verified for productive use whatsoever, nor or for any use related to high risk environments, such as health care, highly or fully autonomous driving, power plants, or other critical infrastructures or services.

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