Customer Support built a forecast-versus-actual dashboard

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the CEO tested it on an iPad. With 1017 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Daniel, a working student

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

UUIDs stored as VARCHAR(255), just in case

Authentication:

the production token is in Slack

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

nobody officially, Petra emotionally

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Bastian, who left

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will outlive two reorganisations.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 40 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, nobody owns it, the builder has left.