Accounting built Excel with a login screen

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Chen, Accounting

Reason:

Allegedly because the ticket has been open for 88 days. Started as Headcount_use-this-one.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Chen, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a production snapshot from March because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

the admin password is Petra123

Deployment:

deployed every time Thomas remembers

Responsible:

Sofia, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

one README with 10 TODOs

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €675k per year, 281 users, alive 45x longer than intended.