Pre-Deployment Change Readiness & Risk Assessment
Assesses organizational and technical readiness for infrastructure, application, or data migrations by flagging dependency risks, evaluating rollback preparedness, and measuring stakeholder confidence before go/no-go decisions.
Sample questions
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What type of change or migration is this assessment primarily about?
- Infrastructure migration
- Application upgrade or replatform
- Data migration
- Cloud adoption
- Security or compliance change
- Process or tooling change
- Other (please specify)
<p>How ready is the <strong>infrastructure/environment</strong> for this change?</p>
If this change were executed within the next 30 days, how would you rate the overall risk?
What is the preferred cutover window for this change?
- Business hours
- After hours (weekday)
- Weekend
- Blue-green or zero-downtime deployment
- Other (please specify)
<p>How thorough is <strong>functional testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
We'd like to explore your perspective on this migration's readiness in a bit more depth. An AI moderator will ask you a couple of follow-up questions based on your earlier responses.
Based on your responses, is there anything else we should consider before the go/no-go decision?
What is your primary role?
- Software engineer
- SRE/Operations
- Security/Compliance
- Data/Analytics
- Product or Project management
- QA/Testing
- Support/Customer success
- Other (please specify)
Thank you for completing this assessment. Your responses will be combined with those of other stakeholders to inform the go/no-go decision. If you have urgent concerns not captured here, please contact the project lead directly.
How clearly defined are the scope and success criteria for this change?
<p>How ready is the <strong>application/code</strong> for this change?</p>
Please describe the top risks for this change and the conditions most likely to trigger them.
If downtime is expected, what is the estimated total planned downtime?
- No downtime expected
- 1–15 minutes
- 16–60 minutes
- 1–4 hours
- More than 4 hours
- Unknown
<p>How thorough is <strong>performance/load testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
Which team or function are you representing in this assessment?
- Platform/Infrastructure
- Application team
- Data/ML
- Security
- Networking
- Compliance/Privacy
- Customer-facing operations
- Other (please specify)
<p>How ready is the <strong>data/schema layer</strong> for this change?</p>
Is a rollback or restore plan currently available and tested?
- Yes, tested end-to-end
- Yes, tested partially
- Draft only
- No
- Unknown
<p>How thorough is <strong>security testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
How many similar changes have you participated in over the past 2 years?
- None
- 1–2
- 3–5
- 6–10
- 11+
<p>How ready are <strong>security and compliance controls</strong> for this change?</p>
What specific prerequisites must be in place to make a rollback viable?
<p>How thorough is <strong>rollback/recovery testing</strong> coverage for this change?</p>
<p>How ready is <strong>monitoring and observability</strong> for this change?</p>
<p>How thorough is <strong>monitoring and alerting verification</strong> for this change?</p>
<p>How ready is <strong>documentation and runbooks</strong> for this change?</p>
Are clear go/no-go criteria defined for this change?
- Yes, documented and agreed upon
- Partially defined
- No
- Unknown
How would you rate the overall level of dependency risk for this change?
How confident are you that this change can be executed safely and on schedule?
What’s included
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Frequently asked questions
What questions are in the “Pre-Deployment Change Readiness & Risk Assessment” template?
The template includes 29 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Welcome to the Change Readiness & Migration Risk Assessment. This survey takes approximately 13 minutes. Your responses…” · “What type of change or migration is this assessment primarily about?” · “<p>How ready is the <strong>infrastructure/environment</strong> for this change?</p>”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.
How long does this survey take to complete?
Respondents typically finish the 29 questions in about 12 minutes.
Can I customize this template?
Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.
Is this template free to use?
Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.
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Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.
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