The Person Who Knows Excel built a monthly reporting tool

“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because the vendor quoted €799 and a discovery phase. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.

Built by:

Tobias, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a database view called production-2_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

there is one account called "admin" and nobody knows who owns it

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

Olivier, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Katrin"

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Chen about.

Age: 354 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 departments depend on it, alive 4x longer than intended, 1 users.