The Innovation Team built an event attendee tracker

“It's in the backlog.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the CEO asked for it in a corridor on a Wednesday. With 211 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Lukas, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

GraphQL, for three fields

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 190,805 unread records

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2024

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 47 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €168k per year, 43 users, 1 accidental connections.