Marketing built an executive dashboard

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Petra, Marketing

Reason:

Allegedly because the prototype has 93,151 production records. Forked from a tutorial at 17:51 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Petra, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Rails app from 2016 nobody updated

Database:

SAP, indirectly, through 7 CSV exports

Authentication:

IP allow-list containing 0.0.0.0/0

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Sofia understands

Responsible:

Thomas, until somebody notices

Documentation:

comments in the code explaining what the code used to do

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 232 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 232 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 57 users, alive 8x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.