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Creating a new product it is a common approach to focus on a user. Who is the target audience? What are their needs? And how we can satisfy these needs? - These are probably the most frequently asked questions when discovering the project. Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Professor, challenged this approach in his book "Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice" and came up with his theory on where to start.

🔶What is JTBD?

Jobs-to-be-Done is a framework which incomposses product vision and its breakdown. As opposed to the well-known user-oriented approach which in business analysis is typically delivered via a User Story format, Jobs-to-be-Done focuses on on the final goal of a user (on a job that has to be done).

🔶How JTBD look like?

The JTBD template is pretty similar to User Story. However instead of who is performing an action, condition is indicated.
So, the template for JTBD is as follows:
When condition, I want desire, so that result.
Example: When commuting, I want to watch short videos, so that to kill time and have fun on the move.
Below the Job Title typically goes acceptance criteria, just the same as with US.

🔶When JTBD is useful

As in JTBD concept context matters rather than a user, it is useful in the cases when the target audience is not clear or is broad. In contrast, User Stories fit well when the audience is identified and is not wanted to become bigger.

🔶How to prioritize JTBD

There are several ways to define which jobs are more critical, and which less. Here are the most commonly used:
🔸Directly ask your audience which jobs from their perspectives are more valuable. On the one hand, straight communication with the customer is a good idea, instead of assumptions you will have a real statement. On the other hand, in case you have several customers to contact, they may have a different opinion on these issues. And prioritization in this way will become even more complicated.
🔸The second way is to figure out how satisfied your customers are with the current solution. The more the dissatisfaction is, the easier it can shift from the old solution to your product.
🔸And one more way is to prioritize the jobs based on the resources that the team has. The easier for the development team to implement the job, the higher its priority.

❓Do you have experience with JTBD?

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Are you curious to find out how a Business Analyst can play a crucial role in establishing and improving project processes? Then join our next meetup – BA Community. Cozy Talks with Andersen – on December 1 to learn about how to create synergy between Business Analysts and Project Managers! 🤝

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For the first time at Andersen! The PM Community is planning a meetup that will be held on December 11, in Warsaw, and… in a cooking show format! As our speakers assure us, we will cook and talk about Scaled Agile. Incidentally, here they are: Agile Project Manager Anton Yadreusky and Project Manager Vladislava Zubareva.

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In order to cook our culinary masterpiece – What Do You Need to Think About as Your Project Grows? – we need experts and interesting ingredient topics:
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We are happy to invite you to our meetup – BA Community. Cozy Talks with Andersen – which we will hold together with the EASY BA community. The event will focus on two topical issues: “How Detailed Should Requirements Be?” and “Preparing Convincing Requirements Demos.”

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​​Hi analysts! ⭐️

Product Management is often considered an area of interest and growth for Business Analysts. In that regard, it make sence to check some of the books, popular in PM circles.
One of these books is “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries, which describes the methodology of creating business based on innovative solutions development.
One of the key concepts of “The Lean Startup” is called Build-Measure-Learn loop. Important points about developing under this approach are:
🔸Product building should be based on the validated learning, which means testing hypotheses and running experiments to gather knowledge about end users and their problems.
🔸In that context the term MVP is not considered a list of core features for first release (as it often does in software development), but as a minimum scope of work that should be done to test chosen hypothesis.
🔸 To understand, if the hypothesis is proved or refuted, metrics should be chosen precisely so it will be clear if the changes in the metrics were caused by the running experiment or not.
🔸 The result of the experiment is learning, so it’s ok if the hypothesis fails or succeds, as soon as it is obvious why does it happened and this knowledge can be used for future development.
🔸Any features that were delivered in time and on budget but failed from the point of customer adaptation because no validated data gathered and used for them are still considered a waste of time, money and effort.

❓How do you think we as analysts can implement this idea into our everyday work with requirements?

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