Office Management built a printer toner request form

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Bastian, Office Management

Reason:

Officially because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. Already exported 208,807 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Bastian, a team lead

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the role is a query parameter

Deployment:

deployed every time Katrin remembers

Responsible:

Bastian, who left 4 months ago

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

MFA exists for the admin account, which everybody shares

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago · original builder left 30 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €293k per year, 73 users, 39% chance of becoming business critical.