CAD Manager’s Survey 2007
Below you’ll find the complete list of survey questions I asked. As I correlate more of the data and publish it in the CAD Manager’s newsletter I’ll provide links to the data on this page.
The CAD Manager 2007 Survey Questions
Your title
Your country of residence?
Which best describes your company’s location?
Which best describes your company’s business?
Which best describes your company’s status?
Which best describes your compensation?
What is your annual base salary in US dollars?
Do you receive health insurance with your job? (countries outside US leave as N/A)
Do you receive profit sharing?
Do you receive an annual bonus?
What is your annual bonus or profit sharing amount in US dollars?
Job Metrics
Which best describes your CAD management status?
How many total hours per week do you work?
Part Timers Only
Do you think your company really NEEDS a full time CAD manager?
Does your management think your company really NEEDS a full time CAD manager?
Is CAD management a recognized part of your job?
Are your opinions on CAD issues respected?
How many hours per week do you usually spend doing CAD production/design work?
How many hours per week do you usually spend on CAD management tasks?
Do you want to become a full time CAD manager?
Budgeting and Purchasing
Do you prepare your department’s annual budget?
Do you have “signature authority” to purchase items?
Do you select CAD software and vendors?
Billing Pressure
Are you under pressure to be more billable?
If you answered yes to the above, which statement best describes your current situation?
Staffing Issues
Do you have “hire/fire” authority over personnel?
Do you perform employee evaluations each year?
Can you discipline employees who violate standards or company CAD procedures?
Do you interview job candidates?
Do you test job candidates for CAD ability?
Do you participate in reviewing employee performance?
Training
Does your company have a CAD training program?
Do you receive training benefits from your company?
Does your company have a training budget?
Do you perform your own training?
Which best describes your training program?
Do you use outside vendors or consultants to help you?
Do you write training manuals yourself?
Do you use audio/video training?
CAD Standards
Do you formulate your own standards?
Do you write standards manuals yourself?
Do you enforce CAD standards yourself?
Do your users support use of CAD standards?
Career/Business Questions
Has your company laid off workers recently?
Has your company hired workers lately?
Which best describes your company’s situation?
How secure do you feel in your job (1 being least secure and 10 being totally secure)?
Outsourcing
Has your company outsourced CAD work recently?
Frustration Items
Please rate your top 5 CAD management frustration items below. The list of items you may select from are CAD Standards Development, CAD Standards Enforcement, Not Having Enough Authority, Providing User Support, Training Issues, Dealing with Management, Lack of Budget, Not Enough Time, Too Much Pressure to be Billable or
What You Manage and How
How many CAD machines do you manage?
Who specifies/buys your CAD hardware?
Who maintains your CAD hardware?
How many CAD users do you support?
What is the MAIN CAD software package you manage? (Don’t worry about versions, just the product name)
If you replied “Other” enter the name here
Which best describes your company’s 2D/3D usage?
If you manage a second CAD software package which one is it?
If you replied “Other” enter the name here
Who manages/maintains all your plotting gear?
Do you do custom programming with any of your CAD systems?
Can you program in AutoLISP? (AutoCAD users only)
Can you program in Visual Basic or VBA?
Can you program using .NET tools?
PLM/Document Management
Do you use a document management or PDM system?
If you answered YES above do you maintain the system?