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Feature Deprecation Stakeholder Impact Survey

Assesses stakeholder usage patterns, anticipated disruption, and transition readiness before sunsetting a product feature. Designed for product and change-management teams planning deprecation with data-driven mitigation.

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21 questions · ~10 min
Q01
Message

Welcome, and thank you for participating. This survey takes approximately 10 minutes and asks about your experience with [Feature Name] to help us plan any changes responsibly. Your responses are confidential and will be reported in aggregate only. There are no right or wrong answers—we want your honest perspective. Participation is voluntary, and you may stop at any time.

Q02
Multiple Choice

How long have you been using this product?

  • Less than 3 months
  • 3–12 months
  • 1–3 years
  • 3+ years
Q03
Opinion Scale

If this feature were removed today, how disruptive would that be to your work over the next 3 months?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:No disruption at allMax:Severe disruption
Q04
Multiple Choice

Do you already have a workaround or alternative?

  • Yes — clear alternative(s) ready
  • Partial workaround
  • No — unsure of alternatives
  • Not needed — we don't rely on this feature
Q05
Long Text

Based on your responses in this survey, is there anything else we should know about your use cases, constraints, or risks related to this feature's potential removal?

Q06
Multiple Choice

What is your primary role?

  • Individual contributor
  • Team lead or manager
  • Executive or owner
  • Consultant or contractor
  • Other
Q07
Message

Thank you for your time. Your feedback will directly inform our deprecation plan and transition support. If you have questions or concerns, please contact [team email].

Q08
Multiple Choice

How often do you currently use this feature?

  • Weekly or more
  • About monthly
  • Used in the past, not currently
  • Never used
Q09
Multiple Choice

If the feature is deprecated, which of the following areas would be significantly impacted for you or your team? (Select all that apply)

  • Day-to-day workflow efficiency
  • Data access or reporting
  • Compliance or audit readiness
  • Team collaboration
  • Customer-facing operations
  • Integration with other tools
  • None of the above
Q10
Multiple Choice

Which alternatives would you likely use? (Select all that apply)

  • Another built-in feature
  • Third-party tool or plug-in
  • Internal/custom-built tool
  • API-based integration
  • Manual steps or process change
  • Defer or stop doing the task
  • Other (please specify)
Q11
Multiple Choice

What is your organization's size (number of employees)?

  • 1–10
  • 11–50
  • 51–200
  • 201–1,000
  • 1,001–5,000
  • 5,001+
Q12
Multiple Choice

When did you last use this feature?

  • Within the last week
  • 2–4 weeks ago
  • 1–3 months ago
  • 3–6 months ago
  • Over 6 months ago
Q13
Opinion Scale

How confident are you that your team could maintain current productivity if this feature were removed?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Extremely confident
Q14
Ranking

Drag to rank your top 3 considerations when choosing an alternative (top = most important).

  1. Feature parity
  2. Setup effort
  3. Ongoing cost
  4. Security or compliance
  5. Data migration ease
Drag to rank
Q15
Dropdown

Which industry best describes your organization?

  • Technology
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Retail or eCommerce
  • Manufacturing
  • Government or Nonprofit
  • Other
Q16
Multiple Choice

Which activities has this feature supported for you? (Select all that apply)

  • Data export or reporting
  • Automation or scheduling
  • Integration with other tools
  • Navigation or discovery
  • Collaboration or sharing
  • Compliance or audit needs
  • Troubleshooting or diagnostics
  • Other (please specify)
Q17
AI Interview

You mentioned how this feature's removal might affect you. Can you walk us through a specific scenario where losing this feature would create a problem for your workflow?

Q18
Multiple Choice

What support would be most helpful during a transition? (Select all that apply)

  • How-to guides or tutorials
  • Migration checklist
  • One-on-one assistance
  • Sample scripts or templates
  • API documentation
  • Temporary overlap period
  • Change log and notifications
  • Community forum thread
Q19
Dropdown

Which region are you primarily based in?

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Latin America
  • Middle East or Africa
  • Other
Q20
Opinion Scale

How helpful would a 60-day overlap period — where both the old and new options are available — be for your transition?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Not at all helpfulMax:Extremely helpful
Q21
Dropdown

What is the minimum notice period you would need before this feature is removed?

  • Less than 2 weeks
  • 2–4 weeks
  • 1–2 months
  • 3 months
  • 6 months
  • More than 6 months

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

  • Includes an AI follow-up interview that adapts in real time to a stakeholder's stated disruption concerns, going beyond a fixed question list
  • Pairs quantitative opinion-scale questions (disruption level, confidence in maintaining productivity, value of a 60-day overlap) with open-ended and ranking questions to surface both scale and nuance of transition readiness
  • Segments respondents by role, org size, industry, and region so product and change-management teams can see which stakeholder groups face the most disruption
  • Closes with an open-text catch-all and a dropdown on minimum notice period, giving teams concrete transition-planning inputs alongside a free tier and $50/mo Business plan (no academic tier)

SurveyMonkey

Product Feature Survey Template

A general-purpose fielding-ready template for gauging reactions to a product feature, likely covering satisfaction and usage rather than deprecation-specific transition risk. Useful as a starting point but would need heavy customization to capture disruption impact, workaround readiness, or notice-period needs. No deprecation or change-management framing is evident.

What it does well

  • Ready-to-launch template on an established survey platform
  • Backed by SurveyMonkey's broad question-bank and reporting tools
  • Easy to customize for general feature feedback

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI interviewing to probe individual disruption stories
  • Not purpose-built for deprecation/transition planning (notice periods, overlap windows, workarounds)
  • No published methodology for how responses are scored or synthesized

Jotform

Product Usage Survey Template

A ready-to-use form focused on capturing how and how often a product is used, which overlaps with the usage-pattern portion of a deprecation survey but stops short of assessing disruption or transition readiness. It's a static form builder template rather than an interview experience. Good for baseline usage data, not for the qualitative depth needed around change impact.

What it does well

  • Quick to deploy usage-tracking form
  • Jotform's drag-and-drop builder allows easy field customization
  • Supports standard question types like multiple choice and dropdowns

Where it falls short

  • No mechanism to explore why a change would be disruptive beyond static questions
  • Lacks any AI-driven follow-up or voice interview option
  • No transition-planning fields like notice period or overlap-period preference

QuestionPro

Product Evaluation Survey Template and Sample Questionnaire

A fielding-ready questionnaire aimed at evaluating overall product satisfaction and feature value, which is adjacent to but not focused on the risk of removing a specific feature. It provides sample questions and structure but no built-in path for capturing workaround plans or stakeholder-specific transition support needs. Best suited to general evaluation rather than deprecation impact assessment.

What it does well

  • Sample questionnaire gives a documented question structure to start from
  • Established survey platform with reporting and analytics
  • Supports multiple question types typical of evaluation surveys

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI or voice interview follow-up on individual disruption concerns
  • Not tailored to deprecation-specific decisions like notice period or overlap windows
  • No transparent per-response quality scoring or prompt methodology disclosed

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