The Process Excellence Team built a KPI dashboard explaining the other KPI dashboard

“It's just a form.”— Bastian, The Process Excellence Team

Reason:

Officially because the licence costs €14,000 per user, per month. Already exported 234,613 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Bastian, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Zapier being used as middleware

Database:

Redis with persistence disabled because "it is only a cache"

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Lukas is on holiday.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 6 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 786 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, nobody owns it, the builder has left.