How does this skill help with feature prioritization?

It evaluates features through a 'job lens,' determining priority based on how many users perform the job, how frequently it occurs, and how well existing alternatives currently solve it.

What is the Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) framework?

JTBD is a framework for understanding the underlying progress a customer is trying to make. It posits that people don't buy products; they 'hire' them to do a specific job in their lives.

What are the dimensions of a 'Job' in this framework?

Every job has three dimensions: Functional (the task to be done), Emotional (how the user wants to feel), and Social (how the user wants to appear to others).

Can I use this skill for competitive analysis?

Yes. It helps identify non-obvious competitors, such as manual processes, email, or simply 'doing nothing,' which often compete with software solutions for the same user job.

Jobs to Be Done Framework

Name: Jobs to Be Done Framework
Author: tjboudreaux

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协作工具

Analyzes product development and user needs through the Jobs to Be Done framework to focus on user progress and outcomes.

The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) skill empowers Claude to shift product thinking from specific features to the underlying progress users are trying to achieve. Based on Clayton Christensen's methodology, this skill helps developers and product managers identify why customers 'hire' a product by exploring functional, emotional, and social dimensions of user goals. It provides structured templates for job mapping, competitive analysis, and feature prioritization, making it an essential tool for debugging low adoption, identifying non-obvious competitors, and ensuring every line of code contributes to a meaningful user outcome.

主要功能

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02Dimensional mapping across functional, emotional, and social requirements

03Competitive analysis that includes non-consumption and indirect rivals

04Comprehensive job mapping to identify stage-specific pain points

05Framework-driven feature prioritization based on job frequency and alternative adequacy

06Standardized JTBD analysis using the 'When/I want/So I can' formula

使用场景

01Refining market positioning by understanding the 'surprising' competitors users switch from

02Prioritizing a product roadmap by evaluating which features serve the most critical user jobs

03Debugging low feature adoption by identifying misalignments between the tool and the user's actual goals

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add tjboudreaux/cc-thinking-skills thinking-jobs-to-be-done

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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