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.
Sample questions
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Which type of migration is most relevant to your current work?
- SDK
- API (REST/GraphQL/gRPC)
- Both SDK and API
- Not sure yet
Which best describes your migration status today?
- Not started
- Planning
- In progress
- Completed in test/staging
- Completed in production
- Not planning to migrate
How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Internal dependencies on other teams or systems
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
How confident are you that your team can complete this migration successfully within the planned timeline?
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)
Based on your responses in this survey, is there anything else you'd like to share about your migration experience, needs, or concerns?
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)
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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
Approximately what percentage of the migration is complete?
- Less than 10%
- 10–25%
- 26–50%
- 51–75%
- 76–90%
- More than 90%
How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Missing or unclear documentation
Rank the following areas by where the most migration effort will be spent (most effort first).
- Planning/design
- Code changes
- Writing/maintaining tests
- Data migration
- Integration/CI/CD updates
- Documentation and training
- Security/compliance review
- Stakeholder coordination
How satisfied are you with the migration support and resources currently available to you?
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)
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.
How many years of professional development experience do you have?
- 0–1
- 2–4
- 5–9
- 10–14
- 15+
Which API style(s) are in scope for this migration? (Select all that apply)
- REST
- GraphQL
- gRPC
- WebSocket
- Webhooks
- Other (please specify)
- Not applicable
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
How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Breaking changes in the new version
How would you rate the overall risk level of this migration for your project?
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+
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)
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)
How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Insufficient test coverage
What is your primary region or time zone?
- Americas
- EMEA
- APAC
- Other/Multiple
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').
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)
How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Security review process
What industry does your company primarily operate in?
- Technology/SaaS
- Finance/Fintech
- E-commerce
- Healthcare
- Media/Gaming
- Education
- Government/Nonprofit
- Other (please specify)
How much of a blocker is each of the following for your migration? Stakeholder buy-in or approval
Rank the following blockers in the order you would prioritize addressing them (most important first).
- Internal dependencies
- Missing/unclear documentation
- Breaking changes
- Insufficient test coverage
- Security review process
- Stakeholder buy-in
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
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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 TemplateThis 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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