Planview’s product management software empowers product leaders to strengthen product strategy, highlight delivery risks early, bring the right products to market through dynamic product planning, make the right product decision tradeoffs, and deliver measurable value while reducing time to market.

Intensified Resource Constraints

Your budgets are shrinking but expectations aren’t. Headcount freezes and budget limitations make it impossible to fill capability gaps, forcing difficult decisions about which products or features to abandon. Meanwhile, there’s constant pressure to do more with less.

• Resource Optimization: AI-driven insights on resource allocation help you identify where to focus in product development processes
• Capacity Visualization: Transparency around true team member capacity prevents overcommitment and burnout during headcount freezes
• Investment Reallocation: Real-time identification of underperforming initiatives lets you reallocate resources to higher-value opportunities without waiting for quarterly reviews
• Task Management: Focus team members on high-value work while automating administrative tasks that drain productivity

Prioritization Challenges

When resources are scarce, every prioritization decision matters. Choosing the wrong initiatives can be catastrophic. Your executives, sales teams, and customers are all pressuring you to focus on their individual priorities. Meanwhile, you’re struggling to balance immediate revenue needs with long-term product investments that will let you maintain your competitive edge.

• Data-Driven Prioritization: Replace gut-feeling decisions with AI and data-driven prioritization frameworks that allow for smart backlog management and consider dependencies, business impact, and risk
• Stakeholder Alignment Tools: Structured frameworks align stakeholders around shared goals, reducing politically driven decisions
• Impact Forecasting: AI predicts potential ROI of competing initiatives, helping you focus on those with the highest likelihood of meaningful returns
• Integrated Tracking Tools: Provide visibility into initiative progress, ensuring priorities remain on track once decisions are made

Reduced Tolerance for Risk

You’re in an innovation deficit due to a decreased appetite for experiments or projects that don’t guarantee immediate returns. You’re over-indexing on “safe” investments, focusing only on proven features and incremental improvements rather than potential breakthroughs that would leapfrog your competitors. And your investment horizons are getting shorter, with pressure to demonstrate ROI in weeks or months rather than quarters or years.

• Risk Visibility: Surfacing potential delivery risks, market risks, and technical risks in a consolidated view for more informed decision-making
• Innovation Pipeline: Creating a balanced product plan that includes safe bets, incremental releases to stay competitive, and potential strategic breakthroughs
• Early Warning Systems: Identifying “at-risk” initiatives before they fail, enabling course correction rather than cancellation

Shifting Strategic Priorities

Your product roadmap is often disrupted as your executive team pivots to respond to changing market conditions. This creates reactive planning cycles with constant requirements to re-plan and re-prioritize as economic conditions fluctuate. Short-term survival focus undermines your long-term vision for product strategy and direction.

• Dynamic Product Roadmapping: Enabling rapid roadmap adjustments when priorities change without losing track of commitments or dependencies
• Product-Strategy-to-Execution Alignment: Maintaining visible connections between changing corporate strategy and tactical execution, ensuring teams understand the “why” behind pivots
• Team Collaboration Tools: Ensure that strategic pivots are communicated and executed effectively, maintaining alignment during times of change.
• Impact Assessment: See cancelled or aging work to understand impact of frequent, unplanned strategy shifts

Gestion de la relation client

Your customers are also facing economic pressure, changing their priorities and willingness to pay. This increases churn risk as customers scrutinize all vendor relationships, looking to cut costs. Meanwhile, you have a reduced ability to conduct proper market research or customer validation when speed to market is paramount.

• Outcome Tracking: Linking product investments directly to customer-centric outcomes like retention, satisfaction, and adoption
• Value Demonstration: Providing data to help product teams demonstrate value delivered to customers, supporting renewal conversations
• Idea Generation: Helps teams capture and evaluate innovative concepts within a structured framework that balances creativity with business reality
• Feedback Management: Capturing and integrating customer feedback and user feedback directly into prioritization processes, ensuring changing customer needs are addressed