A Working Group built a packaging material inventory

“We have a backup somewhere.”— Thomas, A Working Group

Reason:

Allegedly because Nadia has the only working copy of Leads_new.xlsx. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Thomas, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Google Apps Script holding together three departments

Database:

a mini PC behind the reception desk

Authentication:

the refresh token never expires, for convenience

Deployment:

running on port 5173 in production

Responsible:

Lukas, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a file called how-it-works-v2-final-final.docx

Security situation:

the service account is also a real employee

Future disaster:

It will send 83,663 duplicate emails.

Age: 2.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 139x longer than intended, 33% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it.