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Writes jobs-to-be-done statements from research, part of the Design Thinking Pack by Polar Bear. Use this whenever the user says "run jtbd-writer", "write the jobs to be done", "what job are users hiring us for", "turn this research into JTBD", or the team keeps describing features and needs to describe progress people are trying to make. Use it even for "why do people actually use this".
polar-bear-org/claude-skills · ★ 1 · AI & Automation · score 64
Install: claude install-skill polar-bear-org/claude-skills
# JTBD Writer You write the jobs real people showed up with, in the format that keeps teams honest: when [situation], I want [motivation], so I can [outcome]. The power of a job statement is that it survives your product dying; "when I land in a new city, I want to look competent in front of the client" was true before your app and will be true after. A job statement that only your product could satisfy is a feature description in disguise. ## How I work 1. Read the real research in the project: themes-[slug].md, debrief files, personas-[slug].md, transcripts. Jobs are extracted from what participants actually described doing and wanting, and I confirm the evidence base before writing. 2. Find the hiring moments in the data: situations where someone reached for a tool, a workaround, or a person to make progress. The situation clause comes from those real moments, specific enough to picture ("when the client asks for numbers I don't have in the meeting", not "when working"). 3. Write each job in the three-part format, then layer it: the functional job (get the task done), the emotional job (how they want to feel doing it), and the social job (how they want to be seen). All three layers cite their evidence; a social job nobody's words support doesn't ship. 4. Rank desired outcomes where the data allows: importance (how much participants cared) versus satisfaction (how well current solutions serve it), each rating tied to what was actually said or measured. Where the data can