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Jobs To Be Done

An annotated collection of 4 books & essays on jobs to be done, spanning 2005 to 2016. Featuring works by Anthony W. Ulwick, Intercom, Clayton M. Christensen — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Ulwick is the consultant who developed the Outcome-Driven Innovation method that Christensen later popularised as Jobs-To-Be-Done. The book is the operational companion to Competing Against Luck: where Christensen provid…

Intercom Job Story Template

Intercom, 2014 · Intercom Inc.

A short Intercom template that translates Jobs-To-Be-Done into a story format — the "When [situation], I want to [motivation], so I can [expected outcome]" structure that has become common in product teams. The template…

Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice

Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon & David S. Duncan, 2016 · HarperBusiness

Christensen's Jobs-To-Be-Done framework finally given book-length treatment — the argument that customers do not buy products, they "hire" them to make progress in their lives, and that understanding the job tells you mo…

Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done

Intercom, 2016 · Intercom Inc.

A short Intercom ebook that collects the company's internal writing on Jobs-To-Be-Done — how they use it to frame customer research, how they structure interviews, how they translate findings into product decisions. The…