Product Ops Chronicles Future proofing product ops: What comes next? with Clare Hawthorne
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Mar 12, 2025 AI Snips
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Pizza During Payroll Outage
- At Namely, during a six-hour payroll outage, Clare resolved the bottleneck by ordering pizza to keep engineers at their desks.
- This illustrates the need to identify and fix immediate constraints pragmatically, even outside typical product ops duties.
Invest Wisely in Process Fixes
- Successful product ops know when to do a one-off fix, partial rehab, or full process refactor.
- Overinvesting in process redesign early on can waste resources; sometimes just enough smoothing is needed to scale incrementally.
Tie Product Ops to Business Outcomes
- Package tactical problem-solving outcomes into measurable business results to justify product ops budget.
- Focus less on solving individual bumps and more on how that work enables faster, better product delivery and impact.