Merge Your Stacks

Stack Layers

 
 

The most common approaches to defining stack layers are by:

  • Product category
  • The steps in the sales and marketing funnel 
  • Buyer journey
  • Product lifecycle (Evaluate, Test, In Use, Retire). This approach generally only works for small stacks or bounded projects. We see this approach most often when someone is trying to capture a full lifecycle picture for a specific category. 
 
 
 
 

Though structuring by product category is the most common approach, any approach that aligns with how you think about tracking technology will work. What’s important in an M&A environment is that if you create one integrated stack, you all agree on the approach. If you are building two independent stacks, adopting a common structure for each will make it easier to compare layers, products, and learn from each other.

 
 
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