The API Isn't the Problem: It's the Alignment

This article explores how technical misalignment—not APIs themselves—is often the root cause of delivery and adoption issues. Drawing from product management experience in a global payments company, it discusses how organizational clarity and stakeholder alignment are more critical than perfect API design. Originally published on Medium: https://medium.com/@seemabshrikant/aligning-product-and-engineering-a-framework-for-building-developer-first-apis-4659f2d6c205