The Transformation Team built a pipeline hygiene dashboard

“Nobody knows the URL.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the spreadsheet has 186,739 rows and 20 tabs. Built in an afternoon, mostly and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sofia, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Claude, and no one quite sure what it changed

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the security model is "nobody knows this URL"

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €89.69/month

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will email the entire customer list to one customer.

Age: 244 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 130 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, €55k per year, nobody owns it.