Two People From Sales built a calibration tracker

“We only need it for this quarter.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the correct dropdown option is "Other". Built in one weekend and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Marco, a team lead

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros with network access

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

security by obscurity, but without much obscurity

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a Miro board with 127 sticky notes

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 5.9 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €478k per year, alive 72x longer than intended, older than the department using it.