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Network Discovery & Design - Market Research Survey

Introduction

We're researching how network partner engineers experience discovery and design complexity. This takes 5–7 minutes. Your answers are anonymous unless you choose to share your details at the end. We'll share a summary of findings with all participants.

Which best describes your current role?

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Which of the following responsibilities do you personally perform as part of  a customer network deployment project? Select all that apply.

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How often are you involved in any of the above engagements on a percentage of your weekly work?

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In the past 6 months, roughly how many customer network discovery, design and deployments engagements have you personally supported, and what is their typical scale?

Engagement Volume

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What tools, if any, are you using to perform the responsibilities you selected above? (Optional) - Open Question

How complex is the discovery and design process in a typical customer engagement? Rate each area separately.

Scale: 1 = Not complex; 2 = Slightly complex; 3 = Moderately complex; 4 = Very complex; 5 = Extremely complex. Areas to rate: Network discovery / current-state understanding; Network design / target-state architecture
Discovery

Design

In what percentage of your engagements does incomplete, unclear, or fragmented discovery information materially affect the design timeline or design quality?

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Which factors most often make network discovery or design difficult? Select up to 3

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Which business impacts have you personally seen, had to prevent, or had to remediate because of incomplete discovery or weak network design? Select up to 4

When discovery or design complexity is high, what is the biggest personal consequence for you?

Across comparable projects, which activity is usually more difficult?

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Which project type is harder to design for?

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Roughly what does your organization currently spend per month on tools used in the discovery and design workflow (software licenses, templates, platforms)?

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Roughly how many hours does a typical discovery and design phase take across your team?

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If a tool automated discovery-to-design workflow for your team, what monthly price would feel reasonable per active project?

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Who typically approves software tools in your team?

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Would you be willing to participate in a 20–30 minute follow-up conversation about your discovery and design workflow?

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