A Former Employee built a procurement savings dashboard

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Sofia, A Former Employee

Reason:

Mainly because the dropdown contains 366 options. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Sofia, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

the audit log is console.log

Deployment:

running in Kubernetes with one pod and no reason

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2022

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €62k per year, alive 12x longer than intended, 1 users.