Describe your departments and disruption scenarios. Makeform creates a questionnaire for critical activities, time-based impacts, dependencies, workarounds, and recovery priorities.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Department heads documenting critical operations
Format
Sectioned questionnaire with impact timelines
Prompt size
347 chars
Example questionnaire structure
Sectioned questionnaire with impact timelines
Department, respondent, and process owner
Which activities are time-critical?
How does impact change over time?
Systems, vendors, people, and facility dependencies
Recovery target and available workaround
Suggested routing tags
Critical operations
Follow-up needed
Dependency review
Ask respondents to describe impacts at several time intervals. A process can be manageable for four hours and unacceptable after two days.
Step 1
Scope
departments, activities, and scenarios
Step 2
Collect
impacts, dependencies, and workarounds
Step 3
Review
compare time-based recovery needs
Step 4
Prioritize
assign gaps and follow-up owners
Why structure matters
Give every process owner the same time horizons, impact dimensions, and dependency prompts while leaving room for operational detail.
Collect an impact and dependency record for every activity a department identifies.
Show when backlogs, customer effects, or other consequences become harder to manage.
Connect activities to the people, applications, suppliers, equipment, and facilities needed for recovery.
Common disruption views
Keep scoring consistent, then show prompts for the disruption being assessed.
Map applications, integrations, manual procedures, data needs, and restoration checks.
Identify location-bound work, utilities, equipment, alternate sites, and remote options.
Capture minimum staffing, scarce skills, backups, and deferrable work.
Record sole-source exposure, buffers, substitutes, switching time, and contacts.
Questionnaire workflow
Generate common questions, tailor the language, route them to owners, and review gaps in context.
Name participating departments, scenarios, impact intervals, and continuity terminology.
Edit impact choices and branch dependency questions from each critical activity.
Share the questionnaire and name who should coordinate specialist input.
Compare responses and follow up on missing owners or unsupported workarounds.
Collection approaches
A questionnaire gives interviews and workshops a consistent starting record without replacing discussion.
Field guide
Connect each activity to time-based consequences, resource dependencies, and a workable recovery assumption.
Ownership and scope
Record the activity, owner, locations, schedule, busy periods, and customers served so recovery estimates have context.
Impact over time
Ask for effects at defined intervals and what changes as missed work and downstream effects accumulate.
People and knowledge
Separate normal staffing from the roles, skills, authority, and backups needed for limited recovery.
Technology and information
List essential applications, integrations, records, and data. Ask about manual alternatives and restored-data checks.
External and physical inputs
Capture suppliers, buildings, utilities, upstream teams, operating buffers, owners, and possible substitutes.
Recovery and follow-up
Collect recovery order, workaround, activation trigger, owner, and any missing resource or decision.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for continuity planners collecting input from department heads and process owners.
It gathers how disruptions could affect important activities over time. It records ownership, services supported, staffing, technology, supplier and facility dependencies, workarounds, recovery needs, and gaps. Responses are review inputs, not a completed continuity plan.
Send it to department heads or process owners who understand operations, deadlines, dependencies, and fallback procedures. They can coordinate with technology, procurement, facilities, or finance specialists where needed.
Useful categories include service delivery, customers, staff, operations, finances, contracts, reputation, safety, and connected work. Choose categories that fit your organization. Ask respondents to explain each rating so reviewers understand what the score means.
Ask about impact at consistent intervals, then request the desired recovery time for each critical activity. Review that estimate alongside dependencies and recovery capability. Include peak periods, because acceptable interruption can change during payroll, month-end, or seasonal demand.
Yes. Use a repeatable section or a separate response for each activity so every one has its own impacts, dependencies, workaround, recovery target, and owner. Avoid combining an entire department into one answer; different activities often have different time sensitivity and resource requirements.
Define terms, give examples, and ask for named systems, vendors, roles, or locations. Allow unknown answers and assign a follow-up owner. Review each response to test assumptions, conflicts, and whether workarounds have the required people and resources.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it does not unlock additional response capacity.
No. It creates a structured collection tool based on your prompt. Continuity planners still need to verify responses, reconcile cross-department dependencies, review recovery estimates against actual capabilities, resolve gaps, and use the approved findings in the organization's continuity and recovery planning process.
Start with consistent operational evidence.
