The AI Taskforce built yet another project tracker

“We'll add tests later.”— Nadia, The AI Taskforce

Reason:

Honestly? Because somebody watched a 30 minute tutorial. With 582 users and 43 feature requests.

Built by:

Nadia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

3 hours 5 minutes

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

a mini PC behind the reception desk

Authentication:

permissions are managed in a spreadsheet

Deployment:

running on a laptop with 19% battery

Responsible:

Head of Operations, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

a PDF containing screenshots of the old UI

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

It will cause Head of Operations to request an immediate status meeting.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 134x longer than intended, €35k per year, 21 users.