Join API strategist James Higginbotham for a bold conversation on why engineering teams are focusing on the wrong things—and how to realign with business outcomes.
Today’s platform engineering conversations are dominated by tools, metrics, and lines of code. But what if we’re measuring the wrong things? What if the true value of engineering lies not in delivery velocity or DORA metrics, but in the positive impact it produces for your digital ecosystems that increasingly rely on seamless integration?
In this tech talk, we’ll chat with James Higginbotham, Head Consultant at LaunchAny, about challenging the status quo of platform and software engineering. Drawing from his experience leading API programs and advising enterprise teams, James will explore how a fixation on internal metrics and engineering output distracts from what really matters: solving business problems and driving ecosystem success.
You’ll walk away with a new lens for evaluating developer productivity, aligning platform engineering with outcomes, and building the right things, not just more things.
James is an API consultant with experience in architecting, building, and deploying APIs and cloud native architectures. As an API consultant, he enjoys helping businesses balance great API design and product needs. He also creates and delivers API and cloud native architecture training with the goal of equipping cross-functional teams to integrate their talents toward building first-class APIs for their product or enterprise systems.