Talking Roadmaps Does Transformation End Where Product Operations Begins? | Victoria Sheer
Jan 2, 2026
In a captivating discussion, Victoria Sheer, a seasoned Global Product Value Management lead, shares her extensive experience in product operations and transformation. She highlights how product ops can optimize processes and align teams, significantly impacting profitability. Victoria emphasizes the need for strategic thinking in product ops, advocating for trust in advisory roles rather than mere task enforcement. She warns against mindlessly copying agile frameworks and underscores the importance of strategy alignment in successful transformations. Her insights are invaluable for any corporate professional!
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Product Ops As Transformation's Aftermath
- Product operations often represents the steady-state work remaining after a transformation finishes.
- Victoria Sheer argues you cannot separate transformation from ongoing operations because both must run together.
Leading ALDI's Product Model Shift
- At ALDI Victoria led the IT shift to a product operating model starting from e-commerce and expanding across IT.
- She owned strategy, portfolio and value-driven streams to connect hundreds of teams to measurable KPIs.
Ops Optimisation Outweighs Single Products
- Sheer defines product operations as optimizing processes and how people work together across the organisation.
- She believes those improvements can have larger P&L impact than individual products.
