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 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 approaches to standardization conversations that have worked for them. 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 take live Q&A.
Speaker
Hermance N'Dounga
Senior Product Manager, Atlassian
Hermance started her career as a Collaboration Tools Specialist, helping teams work efficiently together. She joined Atlassian 8 years ago and grew in the Atlassian Enterprise team, helping large organizations in their digital transformation as a Sr. Solutions Engineer and Atlassian Certified Expert. Her deep experience with Atlassian’s products and understanding of customer needs paved the way to product management, where she is now a Sr. Product Manager for Jira Product Discovery. Outside of work, Hermance loves to bike around the streets of Amsterdam and play strategy games when the weather is rainy.
