Which proposed improvement would help your current work most?
Connect a preferred improvement to current work rather than ranking features solely by novelty.
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Feature prioritization survey
Understand the jobs behind feature requests.
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QUESTION WORDING LAB
Assumes a positive answer
Would you agree that feature prioritization was a completely positive experience?
Ask about the actual situation
Which proposed improvement would help your current work most?
The initial wording assumes a positive evaluation. The revised question asks about the actual situation so a respondent can describe difficulty, uncertainty, or a different experience.
A useful starting point
A questionnaire for feature prioritization.
Understand the jobs behind feature requests. Choose the questions that fit the experience you are investigating; avoid asking people to evaluate a step they did not encounter.
If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate.
What would you use it to accomplish?
Ask for the task the improvement would enable so votes can be compared with actual needs.
How do you handle that need today?
Identify the existing workaround; a preference does not establish that the need is currently unmet.
How often do you encounter the underlying need?
Check how often the need occurs so a rare critical task and a frequent convenience are interpreted separately.
What consequence does the current workaround have?
Assess the workaround's consequence without assuming that a new feature would remove every cost or error.
If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate. Which proposed improvement would help your current work most? What would you use it to accomplish? How do you handle that need today? How often do you encounter the underlying need? What consequence does the current workaround have?
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Examples to adapt, rather than a validated research instrument.
Read the answers carefully
What the answers cannot tell you.
Votes alone do not measure implementation cost or willingness to pay.
Example votes favor a popular request while comments reveal infrequent use of the underlying task. This is an illustrative interpretation problem rather than a real customer result. Compare task frequency and consequence before ranking requests solely by votes.
Before you send it
Check what your wording assumes.
Would you agree that feature prioritization was a completely positive experience?
Which proposed improvement would help your current work most?
The initial wording assumes a positive evaluation. The revised question asks about the actual situation so a respondent can describe difficulty, uncertainty, or a different experience.
A worked interpretation example
From a comment to a practical next step.
Illustrative scenario. These are not customer results.
Keep the finding specific
Example votes favor a popular request while comments reveal infrequent use of the underlying task.
Choose an action to test
Compare task frequency and consequence before ranking requests solely by votes.
Check the experience again
After testing the action, revisit this original observation: Example votes favor a popular request while comments reveal infrequent use of the underlying task. Repeat the relevant experience prompts with people who encountered the change. Compare specific explanations and sample differences; do not claim causation from the before-and-after responses.
From question to next step
Make the feedback useful.
Set the decision
Write down the decision you want this questionnaire to support: understand the jobs behind feature requests.
Invite relevant voices
Invite people who experienced the relevant situation. Explain response handling and include an optional skip or not-applicable route. Votes alone do not measure implementation cost or willingness to pay.
Choose an action
Compare task frequency and consequence before ranking requests solely by votes.
Choose the response format
Make room for the explanation.
| Question | Suggested format | What to preserve |
|---|---|---|
| Which proposed improvement would help your current work most? | Short open text | Connect a preferred improvement to current work rather than ranking features solely by novelty. |
| What would you use it to accomplish? | Short open text | Ask for the task the improvement would enable so votes can be compared with actual needs. |
| How do you handle that need today? | Short open text | Identify the existing workaround; a preference does not establish that the need is currently unmet. |
| How often do you encounter the underlying need? | Short open text | Check how often the need occurs so a rare critical task and a frequent convenience are interpreted separately. |
| What consequence does the current workaround have? | Short open text | Assess the workaround's consequence without assuming that a new feature would remove every cost or error. |
Make questions optional where appropriate. If you add a rating scale, label its endpoints, keep one idea per question, and retain a follow-up for reasons. These examples are not a validated measurement instrument.
Before you send it
Questions, answered.
What should I learn from this feature prioritization questionnaire?
Understand the jobs behind feature requests. Start with one decision you can act on rather than using the survey to confirm a preferred answer.
What should I look for in the answer to “What would you use it to accomplish?”?
Ask for the task the improvement would enable so votes can be compared with actual needs.
What would a practical next action look like?
Compare task frequency and consequence before ranking requests solely by votes. This is an example action to investigate, not a guaranteed improvement.
When should I send this questionnaire?
Ask after respondents have experienced the specific situation in the first prompt: “Which proposed improvement would help your current work most?” Allow enough time after a proposed change for people to experience it before repeating the questionnaire.
What should I check after changing the process?
After testing the action, revisit this original observation: Example votes favor a popular request while comments reveal infrequent use of the underlying task. Repeat the relevant experience prompts with people who encountered the change. Compare specific explanations and sample differences; do not claim causation from the before-and-after responses.
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Copy the questions or download TXT, CSV, JSON, or a Markdown worksheet and adapt them in your own survey. The product CTA opens registration and does not import the example. Verify the features and terms available in your account.
Does the product screenshot contain this questionnaire?
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Build questions around an experienced task, keeping reports of difficulty separate from feature preferences. The actual product screenshot shows a separate synthetic post-event demonstration; the example questions on this page are not already loaded in the product.
- Start a manual draft with a title that tells respondents why you are asking. Understand the jobs behind feature requests.
- Copy or download the relevant example questions above, then create and add the questions in your draft. Review the question notes before deciding which prompts to keep.
- Check the respondent preview, especially this wording: “Which proposed improvement would help your current work most?” Include a way to say none or not applicable, and review your response-handling instructions.
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