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 begann ihre Karriere als Collaboration Tools Specialist. Sie half Teams dabei, effizient zusammenzuarbeiten. Vor 8 Jahren kam sie zu Atlassian und entwickelte sich im Atlassian-Enterprise-Team weiter. Sie unterstützte große Unternehmen als Senior Solutions Engineer und als von Atlassian zertifizierter Partner bei ihrer digitalen Transformation. Ihre umfassende Erfahrung mit den Produkten von Atlassian und ihr Verständnis der Kundenanforderungen ebneten ihr den Weg zum Produktmanagement, wo sie heute als leitende Produktmanagerin für Jira Product Discovery tätig ist. In ihrer Freizeit radelt Hermance gerne durch die Straßen von Amsterdam. Wenn es regnet, verbringt sie ihre Zeit gerne mit Strategiespielen.