Business Intelligence built a non-conformance register

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the dashboard is updated manually every Sunday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Katrin, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Python, Flask and no requirements.txt

Database:

a SQLite file inside a Docker volume nobody has backed up

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Stock_list_FIXED_final.xlsm

Responsible:

Nadia, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

password reset emails contain the old password

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 16 users.