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Jobs To Be Done Canvas

by product-on-purpose

Jobs To Be Done Canvas is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by product-on-purpose in pm-skills.

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Install Jobs To Be Done Canvas
Copy Jobs To Be Done Canvas into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tree/main/skills/define-jtbd-canvas ~/.claude/skills/define-jtbd-canvas

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only β€” not the rest of the repository β€” into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
skills/define-jtbd-canvas/SKILL.md in product-on-purpose/pm-skills
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/define-jtbd-canvas
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
Writing β€” 1012 skills

What Jobs To Be Done Canvas does

Jobs To Be Done Canvas creates a JTBD canvas that captures functional, emotional, and social dimensions of a customer job. Use it to understand motivations, shape positioning, or compare competing solutions.

Jobs To Be Done Canvas is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Jobs To Be Done Canvas comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentskills, ai-skills, claude-code and claude-desktop.

Documentation

README

Jobs to be Done Canvas

A Jobs to be Done (JTBD) canvas captures the complete picture of why customers "hire" products to make progress in their lives. Based on Clayton Christensen's framework, JTBD goes beyond features and demographics to understand the underlying motivations.functional, emotional, and social.that drive customer behavior.

When to Use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Jobs To Be Done Canvas

  • What else does product-on-purpose publish alongside Jobs To Be Done Canvas?

    Jobs To Be Done Canvas is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from product-on-purpose/pm-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Acceptance Criteria, Architecture Decision Record and Build Risk Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Jobs To Be Done Canvas does, and is maintained by product-on-purpose in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the product-on-purpose/pm-skills page.

  • How does Jobs To Be Done Canvas compare to other Writing skills?

    Jobs To Be Done Canvas ranks #706 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Jobs To Be Done Canvas against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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