Under a platform-based TOM, there are two main teams for which clear roles and responsibilities are to be defined.
Figure 8.11: TOM roles and responsibilities for API products
Roles and responsibilities
API product teams
The API product teams are accountable and responsible for individual API products, and are therefore also responsible for executing all of the activities of the API life cycle (refer to Chapter 7, API Life Cycle, for more details on the API life cycle).
There can be as many API product teams as required, as long as there is a clear understanding of which team owns which API. Ideally, there should be one-to-one mapping (one product to one team); however, on occasion, it might make sense to give a team more than...
