Re: Trial version of the questionnaire

Ivan asked me to send my comments on the questionnaire to the group (I had 
embedded them within my trial answers). So here they are (many of them 
agree with points raised by Susie).

Question 6: the answers should be checkboxes

Question 10: I don't understand this question as worded. Why do we care 
about the survey taker's opinion on this vis a vis the actual nature of 
who the decision markers / influencers are?

Question 10&11: I don't like the "Don't want" and "Don't mind" choices; 
they confuse me!

Question 15: I think this should be check boxes also (I'm a developer and 
an IBM representative on standards committees.) Also, I would be a 
standard committee representative; I'm not actually a committee itself.

Overall I'm pleased with the questionnaire. It took me about 10 minutes to 
fill out, though I skimped on some of the answers. I'm not too concerned 
about being precise to the minute in terms of our time advice to the 
questionnaire takers. 

Lee

Susie Stephens wrote on 12/15/2006 04:03:02 PM:

> 
> Hi Ivan,
> 
> I've just had a go at filling out the questionnaire, and the process 
> went fairly smoothly. It took me 10 minutes to complete, so the time 
> guide does seem reasonable. Here are some thoughts as to where we can 
> make a few tweaks.
> 
> 1. Instead of saying "It is intended that it will take less than 10 
> minutes for you to complete the survey.", we should say "It is intended 
> that it will take about 10 minutes for you to complete the survey".
> 
> 2. In Q6, people should be able to select multiple radio buttons, for 
> example, I wanted to select that Oracle sells SW products and are using 
> SW in production.
> 
> 3. For question 8, would it be possible to have separate dialogue boxes 
> for advantages and disadvantages. I think separate boxes will encourage 
> people to enter both types of information.
> 
> 4. In questions 10 and 11, is it possible to remove the responses "don't 

> mind" and "don't want", as they aren't appropriate answers to the 
> questions? It would also be nice if there was an option that states "no 
> influence", otherwise people are forced to rank entries when none of 
> them apply. For example, in question 10, we could potential loose the 
> fact that only IT management influences technology selection.
> 
> 5. In question 12, I think the subheading should become the main 
> heading. There could be a subheading in brackets that says "Please 
> select all that apply".
> 
> I think it's looking really good. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Susie
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ivan Herman wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > We have now a 'trial' version of the questionnaire ready at:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/39572/qtest/
> >
> > this version can only be accessed by the SWEO IG, it is really to see
> > how it looks like, and to experiment with it. You can all try to fill
> > the form, the results of the form can then be seen at:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/39572/qtest/results
> >
> > We would like to get all comments in by next week Wednesday, 20th of
> > December. We can then make a copy of the questionnaire, this time
> > accessible to the public. Susie can then send out the URI to the
> > contacts we will have collected.
> >
> > Thanks for all comments
> >
> > Susie & Karen & Ivan
> >
> > 
> 
>

Received on Sunday, 17 December 2006 00:46:35 UTC