Building A Community Of Practice For Standardized APIs
Vaudoise Assurances' IT team transformed from chaos to consistency by creating a Community of Practice (CoP) for APIs, standardizing naming and documentation, and conducting regular reviews.
The Early Days: A really small IT Team 🧑💻 The long journey we're going to present began in the 70's with a small team of three people that were representing the whole IT department of Vaudoise Assurances. Since that period, IT continue to grow and grow and build a huge complex transactional system based on cobol still used today. Discovering the Chaos of APIs in 2015 🌪️ In 2015, a group of fresh developers joined the Vaudoise Assurances and started exploring APIs unfortunately only to find a chaotic landscape. As the IT Department grew to more than 200 people, we faced the chall...