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Organizational APIs: Making Invisible Interfaces Explicit

Organizational APIs: Making Invisible Interfaces Explicit

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 Teams don’t just hand off code or documents; they hand off expectations: who answers questions after launch, what ‘done’ means, how data is interpreted, and which escalation path to use. These invisible interfaces — meeting rituals, implicit data formats, timing assumptions, and informal ownership norms — behave like undocumented APIs that leak cost and slow decisions. In this episode Mirko Peters examines these organizational APIs from the business view (clarity, velocity, outcome ownership) and the IT view (coupling, monitoring, implicit contracts). He uses a concise generalized vignette where timing assumptions between product, analytics, and ops turned a weekly report into a months-long firefight. Listeners get a practical pattern to identify, name, and version their organizational APIs: a lightweight contract template (responsibility, expectations, data contract, SLAs, rollback triggers) and three small rituals teams can adopt this week to make invisible interfaces explicit. If helpful, leave a review and follow Mirko on LinkedIn for the contract template.

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