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API/SDK Migration Readiness & Blockers Assessment

Assess developer teams' API and SDK migration status, identify top blockers, and surface support needs to plan lower-risk, faster upgrades.

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33 questions · ~14 min
Q01
Message

Welcome to the API/SDK Migration Readiness Survey. This survey takes approximately 14 minutes and helps us understand your migration needs, timelines, and blockers so we can better support your team. Your responses are confidential and will be reported only in aggregate. Participation is voluntary, and you may stop at any time. There are no right or wrong answers—we want your honest perspective. Please answer based on your current or most recent migration project.

Q02
Multiple Choice

Which type of migration is most relevant to your current work?

  • SDK
  • API (REST/GraphQL/gRPC)
  • Both SDK and API
  • Not sure yet
Q03
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your migration status today?

  • Not started
  • Planning
  • In progress
  • Completed in test/staging
  • Completed in production
  • Not planning to migrate
Q04
Opinion Scale

How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Internal dependencies on other teams or systems

Scale: 15
Min:Not a blockerMax:Critical blocker
Q05
Dropdown

What is your best estimate of the total engineer-days needed to complete the migration?

  • Less than 5 days
  • 5–10 days
  • 11–25 days
  • 26–50 days
  • 51–100 days
  • 101–250 days
  • More than 250 days
  • Not sure
Q06
Opinion Scale

How confident are you that your team can complete this migration successfully within the planned timeline?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Extremely confident
Q07
Multiple Choice

What would help you make the most progress on migration in the next 30 days? (Select all that apply)

  • Dedicated migration guide
  • Code examples for my stack
  • Starter templates
  • Compatibility layer/tools
  • Linting/static analysis rules
  • Office hours with engineers
  • Faster responses in forum/Slack
  • Feature roadmap clarity
  • Migration checklist
  • Other (please specify)
Q08
Long Text

Based on your responses in this survey, is there anything else you'd like to share about your migration experience, needs, or concerns?

Q09
Multiple Choice

What is your primary role?

  • Backend engineer
  • Frontend engineer
  • Mobile engineer
  • Full-stack engineer
  • DevOps/SRE
  • Data/ML engineer
  • Architect/Tech lead
  • Product manager
  • Engineering manager
  • Other (please specify)
Q10
Message

Thank you for completing this survey. Your responses will help us improve migration support and resources for your team. You're all set!

Q11
Multiple Choice

Which SDK language(s) are in scope for this migration? (Select all that apply)

  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java/Kotlin
  • Swift/Objective-C
  • C#/.NET
  • Go
  • Ruby
  • PHP
  • C/C++
  • Rust
  • Other (please specify)
  • Not applicable
Q12
Dropdown

Approximately what percentage of the migration is complete?

  • Less than 10%
  • 10–25%
  • 26–50%
  • 51–75%
  • 76–90%
  • More than 90%
Q13
Opinion Scale

How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Missing or unclear documentation

Scale: 15
Min:Not a blockerMax:Critical blocker
Q14
Ranking

Rank the following areas by where the most migration effort will be spent (most effort first).

  1. Planning/design
  2. Code changes
  3. Writing/maintaining tests
  4. Data migration
  5. Integration/CI/CD updates
  6. Documentation and training
  7. Security/compliance review
  8. Stakeholder coordination
Drag to rank
Q15
Opinion Scale

How satisfied are you with the migration support and resources currently available to you?

Scale: 17
Min:Not at all satisfiedMax:Extremely satisfied
Q16
Multiple Choice

Where do you primarily look for migration information and documentation? (Select all that apply)

  • Product docs site
  • GitHub repo/README
  • Community forum
  • Stack Overflow
  • Blog posts/tutorials
  • Company Slack/Discord
  • Colleagues/internal wiki
  • Other (please specify)
Q17
AI Interview

We'd like to explore your migration experience in a bit more depth. An AI moderator will ask you a few short follow-up questions based on your responses.

Q18
Dropdown

How many years of professional development experience do you have?

  • 0–1
  • 2–4
  • 5–9
  • 10–14
  • 15+
Q19
Multiple Choice

Which API style(s) are in scope for this migration? (Select all that apply)

  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • WebSocket
  • Webhooks
  • Other (please specify)
  • Not applicable
Q20
Dropdown

When do you expect to begin the migration?

  • Within 1 month
  • 1–3 months
  • 3–6 months
  • 6–12 months
  • More than 12 months
  • Not sure
Q21
Opinion Scale

How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Breaking changes in the new version

Scale: 15
Min:Not a blockerMax:Critical blocker
Q22
Opinion Scale

How would you rate the overall risk level of this migration for your project?

Scale: 15
Min:Very low riskMax:Very high risk
Q23
Dropdown

How many employees does your company have?

  • 1–10
  • 11–50
  • 51–200
  • 201–1,000
  • 1,001–5,000
  • 5,001–10,000
  • 10,000+
Q24
Multiple Choice

Which platform(s) are involved in this migration? (Select all that apply)

  • Web frontend
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Backend services
  • Data pipelines
  • Desktop apps
  • IoT/Embedded
  • CLI/Automation
  • Other (please specify)
Q25
Multiple Choice

What outcomes have you observed since completing the migration? (Select all that apply)

  • Reliability improved
  • Performance improved
  • Access to new features
  • Security/compliance improved
  • Maintainability improved
  • Cost reduction
  • No noticeable change
  • Other (please specify)
Q26
Opinion Scale

How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Insufficient test coverage

Scale: 15
Min:Not a blockerMax:Critical blocker
Q27
Dropdown

What is your primary region or time zone?

  • Americas
  • EMEA
  • APAC
  • Other/Multiple
Q28
Long Text

Please briefly describe which components or services will use the SDK and which will call the API directly (e.g., 'Frontend uses SDK; backend services call REST API').

Q29
Multiple Choice

What is the primary reason you are not planning to migrate?

  • Dependencies on legacy components
  • Lack of time/resources
  • Low perceived benefit
  • Risk of regressions
  • Customer commitments block changes
  • Waiting for missing features
  • Budget constraints
  • Limited internal expertise
  • Other (please specify)
Q30
Opinion Scale

How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Security review process

Scale: 15
Min:Not a blockerMax:Critical blocker
Q31
Multiple Choice

What industry does your company primarily operate in?

  • Technology/SaaS
  • Finance/Fintech
  • E-commerce
  • Healthcare
  • Media/Gaming
  • Education
  • Government/Nonprofit
  • Other (please specify)
Q32
Opinion Scale

How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Stakeholder buy-in or approval

Scale: 15
Min:Not a blockerMax:Critical blocker
Q33
Ranking

Rank the following blockers in the order you would prioritize addressing them (most important first).

  1. Internal dependencies
  2. Missing/unclear documentation
  3. Breaking changes
  4. Insufficient test coverage
  5. Security review process
  6. Stakeholder buy-in
Drag to rank

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Purpose-built for developer migrations: includes multiple-choice questions scoping SDK languages, API styles, platforms, and components in scope, plus migration status and completion-percentage dropdowns.
  • Dedicated blocker diagnostics via opinion-scale ratings on internal dependencies, documentation gaps, breaking changes, testing gaps, security review, and stakeholder alignment, followed by a ranking question to prioritize which blockers to tackle first.
  • Captures planning data static forms don't, like engineer-days estimates and effort-allocation rankings, then uses an AI follow-up interview to probe migration experience in more depth than fixed-choice questions allow.
  • Every response is automatically quality-scored and rolled into an auto-generated report, with transparent prompts for the AI portions — none of which a static template can offer.

SurveyMonkey

AI Readiness Assessment Template

This is a static, fielding-ready template assessing organizational readiness for AI adoption broadly — it is not specific to API/SDK migration, developer tooling, or engineering blockers. It's the closest comparable 'readiness assessment' template on a major platform, but the subject matter only partially overlaps with a technical migration audit. Teams looking specifically for SDK/API migration blocker mapping would need to heavily customize it.

What it does well

  • Backed by an established survey platform with broad template gallery and distribution tools
  • Likely benefits from SurveyMonkey's built-in analytics and benchmarking features
  • Quick to deploy for general organizational AI-readiness conversations

Where it falls short

  • Fixed-question static form with no adaptive AI follow-up probing to dig into specific blockers as they emerge
  • Not tailored to API/SDK-specific concepts like SDK languages, API styles, engineer-day estimation, or breaking-change risk
  • No published prompt-level methodology or per-response quality scoring, and no voice AI or guided screen-share task options

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