Payroll built a forecast-versus-actual dashboard

“The code is self-documenting.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Mainly because Finance has a different spreadsheet. With 1089 users and 24 feature requests.

Built by:

Sarah, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Postgres, but accessed directly from the frontend

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

the write-only account can also read

Deployment:

hosted on Katrin's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

Sarah, an analyst. Only Sarah.

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2019

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Slack message

Future disaster:

It will send 174,267 duplicate emails.

Age: 79 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.1m per year, 91 users, 36% chance of becoming business critical.