API Lifecycle Management: The Four Practices
Most enterprise API programs don’t fail because teams lack standards or tooling. They fail because the API lifecycle runs as disconnected projects across different teams, workflows, and sources of truth — creating drift that compounds over time.
In this eBook, Postman Field CTO Rick Crawford outlines the four practices leading organizations use to run APIs as one connected system: from governance and testing to discovery, observability, and AI readiness.
Access the guide to learn how modern API teams operationalize lifecycle management at scale.
What this guide covers
Each section walks you through:
- The four practices that separate mature API programs from fragmented ones
- Why disconnected lifecycle stages create invisible operational drift
- How leading organizations unify specs, testing, governance, catalogs, and monitoring
- What it means to make agents first-class participants in the API lifecycle
- Five diagnostic questions to evaluate the health of your API program today
By the end, you’ll understand how to run API lifecycle management as a connected operating model — one built for modern platform engineering and the AI era.
