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 rozpoczęła karierę na stanowisku specjalistki ds. narzędzi do współpracy, wspomagając efektywne współdziałanie w zespołach. Dołączyła do firmy Atlassian 8 lat temu i zdobywała szlify w zespole Atlassian Enterprise, wspierając duże organizacje w transformacji cyfrowej w charakterze starszej inżynier ds. rozwiązań i ekspertki z certyfikatem Atlassian. Obszerne doświadczenie w zakresie produktów Atlassian oraz znajomość potrzeb klientów utorowały jej drogę do działu zarządzania produktami; obecnie jest starszą menedżer produktu Jira Product Discovery. Po pracy Hermance uwielbia przemierzać na rowerze ulice Amsterdamu, a w deszczowe dni grać w gry strategiczne.