Reading Guide
Customer and Problem Discovery

The Jobs to Be Done Playbook

Jim Kalbach

The VMT Review

This is a practical complement to Christensen’s more conceptual work. It combines Jobs to Be Done with customer interviews, journey mapping, value propositions, and innovation methods. It may feel tool-heavy to founders seeking a single simple framework, but it provides multiple ways to apply the theory.

What the Reader Will Learn

Founders and mentors learn how to formulate jobs, explore desired outcomes, map customer struggles, identify forces driving and resisting change, and translate customer insight into product and market decisions.