Sales Operations built a KPI wall for a screen nobody looks at

“It's only one database.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because it was faster to build it than to explain it to Plant Manager. Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Miriam, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Chrome extension installed manually on 47 laptops

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

behind a domain Sofia owns privately

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Notion page titled "New docs"

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 16:40.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 11 users, 1 departments depend on it, 1% chance of becoming business critical.