For my thesis I'm constructing a questionnaire and I would like to know your opinion about it and perhaps additional questions. The research will focus on the adoption factors and demographic characteristics of companies using rails. So if you happen to know good questions, or think they're inappropriate, let me know.
I'll start off:
Organizational
1. What is your company name? 2. What city is your company located in? 3. What is the country your company is located in? 4. What is your core business activity? 5. What is the industry sector of your clients? 6. Percentage of projects implemented with rails? 7. Do you operate online or do you have a physical location as well? 8. What is your responsible position? 9. What is the annual gross revenue of your organization?
10. Does your organization exclusively use rails? (yes/no)
11. How many people does your entire organization employ? 12. How many full-time IT employees does your organization employ? 13. How many full-time Rails employees does your organization employ? 14. How many full-time Ruby employees does your organization employ
Ranking of rails features
15. When using rails, what are the most important features for your organization? (5 point Likert scale: totally not important up to very important)
- Active Record - Migrations - MVC - Open Source - etcetera
Strongly disagree up to strongly agree questions
Compatibility
16. Rails has a good fit with enterprise strategic IT architectures 17. Rails provides application portability 18. Rails provides data integration 19. Rails can coexist with your organization's key applications
Complexity
20. Rails is easy to use 21. It is easy for the developers to remember how to perform tasks using rails 22. Using rails requires a lot of mental effort 23. Using rails is frustrating
Relative advantages
- advantage 1 - advantage 2
Relative disadvantages
- disadvantage 1 - disadvantage 2