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Customer Interviews: How to Use the Jobs-to-Be-Done Framework

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This walks through Jobs to Be Done interviewing, which is built entirely around reconstructing a real past decision rather than asking anyone to imagine a future one. It gives you a concrete timeline structure so ask about the past becomes a repeatable method, not just a rule to remember.

  • Reconstruct the timeline of a real purchase or switch decision moment by moment
  • The forces pushing someone away from their old solution matter as much as what pulled them toward the new one
  • Watch that the questions in your timeline do not quietly become leading themselves

The question it answers

  1. What are the questions that quietly ruin an interview by leading the person to the answer I want?

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