How Product Operations can find the right balance between autonomy and consistency

In this session, Sr. Product Manager, Hermance N’Dounga, will pull from her team’s real-world experience to share how product operations can be the critical bridge between product teams and their stakeholders. Using Jira Product Discovery, Hermance will show how product operations can empower product teams with the autonomy they need, while at the same time driving consistent, scalable frameworks that ensure success across the organization.

Product Operations is the critical bridge between product teams and their stakeholders. In this role, they need to give product teams the autonomy to do work their way, while at the same time providing a consistent framework for the organization to consume and understand what product teams are working on. No easy feat!

In this session, Sr. Product Manager, Hermance N’Dounga, will pull from her real-world experience on the Jira Product Discovery team to share how teams can balance shared company practices and team-specific approaches. She’ll show you how to:

  • Establish a common language across your team to gain a shared understanding of work
  • Implement consistent visualizations across teams so the work that matters most bubbles to the top
  • Lead the way in adopting a product model across your organization

This session will include real-world examples in Jira Product Discovery, and, at the end of the session, Hermance will answer some frequently asked questions.

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Hermance N'Dounga

Senior Product Manager, Atlassian

Hermance iniciou sua carreira como especialista em ferramentas de colaboração ao ajudar as equipes a trabalharem juntas com eficiência. Ela entrou na Atlassian há 8 anos e cresceu na equipe do Atlassian Enterprise, ajudando grandes organizações na transformação digital como engenheira de soluções sênior e parceira certificada pela Atlassian. A ampla experiência dela com os produtos da Atlassian e sua compreensão das necessidades dos clientes abriram caminho para o gerenciamento de produtos, onde agora ela é gerente de produto sênior do Jira Product Discovery. Quando não está trabalhando, Hermance adora andar de bicicleta pelas ruas de Amsterdã e se divertir com jogos de estratégia em dias chuvosos.