The Team Nobody Remembers Creating built a renewal calendar

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Thomas, The Team Nobody Remembers Creating

Reason:

Honestly? Because the time tracking system is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 51 minutes. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Thomas, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 59,682 unread records

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

deployed by dragging files into an FTP client

Responsible:

an intern whose contract ended in November

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2020

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 57 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 57 days ago · original builder left 46 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 415 users, 70% chance of becoming business critical, 4 accidental connections.