A Committee With No Budget built a utilisation tracker

“We only need it until the consultant comes back.”— Tobias, A Committee With No Budget

Reason:

Because the source of truth depends on which department you ask. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Tobias, a controller

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

no login. It is on the intranet, so it is fine.

Deployment:

hosted in Nadia's Azure subscription

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Slack message

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 4.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 97% chance of becoming business critical, 4 accidental connections, alive 129x longer than intended.