The Team Nobody Remembers Creating built an executive dashboard

“The API isn't documented.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the workaround has been in production for 2 months. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Petra, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

a SharePoint list that started as a temporary workaround

Authentication:

permissions are managed in a spreadsheet

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Bastian understands

Responsible:

Group Controller, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 17 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 17 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 96% chance of becoming business critical, 5 departments depend on it, 1 users.