Operations built a sales dashboard nobody asked for

“You need to know the exact link.”— Petra, Operations

Reason:

Officially because the official form has 37 fields and not the one that matters. With 1170 users and 77 feature requests.

Built by:

Petra, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

localStorage. That is the whole backend.

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

hosted in a cloud region nobody intended to use

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 88 days ago

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for March and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 22 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 22 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 96% chance of becoming business critical, 1 departments depend on it, 1 users.