BSS Engineering Practices Survey 2026

Asymm Systems is researching engineering practices in telecom BSS, with a focus on TMF standards adoption and conformance. This survey takes about 7 minutes.

Only aggregated results and a de-identified dataset will be published; never your individual response.

This survey is confidential. We ask for your email so we can remove duplicate submissions and send you the results; your individual answers are never published or shared in any form that identifies you or your organisation, and the published dataset contains no contact details.

Section 1: About you

Profile answers are used to screen, segment, and describe the sample. Contact details are held confidentially and used only to remove duplicate responses and send results. They never appear in any published output.

1. Primary area of work *

2. Organisation type *

3. Seniority level *

4. Years in telecom BSS/OSS *

5. Region you have primarily worked in *

6. Email *

Work email preferred. Held confidentially; used only to remove duplicate responses and to send you the published results. Never published.

7. Name (optional)

8. Organisation(s) you work for or have worked for (optional)

Held confidentially; used to validate and segment responses, never published alongside your answers.

Open to being contacted about related research (optional)

Section 3: TMF standards: adoption and conformance

15. Which TMF standards has your organisation adopted or begun adopting? * (select all that apply)

16. For the standards you work with, how difficult is it to achieve and verify conformance? *

17. At what stage are TMF standards conformance issues most often discovered in your projects? *

18. How does your team currently verify TMF standards conformance? * (select all that apply)

Manual code / design review against the specification TMF Conformance Test Kit (CTK) / official test suites Third-party consultants or certification bodies Internally built scripts / tooling / linters Automated checks in the CI/CD pipeline We do not formally verify conformance Unsure

19. How confident are you that the components your team ships are fully TMF-conformant? (optional)

Section 4: Cost of conformance

20. Roughly what share of total engineering effort on a typical BSS project goes to standards conformance work (verification, fixing conformance issues, and certification preparation)? *

21. In your experience, does the cost of fixing a standards conformance issue depend on when in the lifecycle it is found? *

22. Which aspects of BSS component development are most time-consuming for your team? * (select up to 3)

Section 5: Open

23. If you could change one thing about how BSS components are built and delivered today, what would it be? (optional)

24. Anything else about BSS engineering practices or standards conformance you would like to add? (optional)

This survey is confidential. Your individual responses are never published or shared in a form that identifies you or your organisation; only aggregated findings and a de-identified dataset are released, with no contact details. Contact details are used only to remove duplicates and send results.

Thank you for participating.

Your responses have been recorded. We will publish aggregated findings and a de-identified dataset later this year.

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TMF Open APIs
SID
eTOM
ODA components