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deanpeters/product-manager-skills

Systematically explore what customers are trying to accomplish (functional, social, emotional jobs), the pains they experience, and the gains they seek. Use this framework to uncover unmet needs, validate product ideas, and ensure your solution addresses real motivations—not just surface-level feature requests.

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npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill jobs-to-be-done
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Systematically explore what customers are trying to accomplish (functional, social, emotional jobs), the pains they experience, and the gains they seek. Use this framework to uncover unmet needs, validate product ideas, and ensure your solution addresses real motivations—not just surface-level feature requests. This is not a survey—it's a structured lens for understanding why customers "hire" your product and what would make them "fire" it. Influenced by Clayton Christensen and the Value Proposition Canvas (Osterwalder), JTBD breaks customer needs into three categories: 1. Customer Jobs: 2. Pains: 3. Gains: Use template.md for the full fill-in structure. Before exploring JTBD, clarify: If missing context: Conduct customer interviews, contextual inquiries, or "switch interviews" (why they switched from a previous solution).

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What does jobs-to-be-done do?

Systematically explore what customers are trying to accomplish (functional, social, emotional jobs), the pains they experience, and the gains they seek. Use this framework to uncover unmet needs, validate product ideas, and ensure your solution addresses real motivations—not just surface-level feature requests.

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jobs-to-be-done currently lists compatibility with codex, gemini-cli, opencode, cursor, kimi-cli, amp, github-copilot.

What are alternatives to jobs-to-be-done?

Skills in the same category include telegram-bot-builder, flutter-app-size, sharp-edges, iterative-retrieval.

How do I install jobs-to-be-done?

npx skills add https://github.com/deanpeters/product-manager-skills --skill jobs-to-be-done

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