R&D built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“The workshop was tomorrow.”— Priya, R&D

Reason:

Mainly because the prototype has 154,025 production records. Started as Suppliers_FIXED.csv with a script attached.

Built by:

Priya, the management assistant

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

Redis, but used permanently

Authentication:

the app is secure because it has a padlock icon

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 7.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 407 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 4 departments depend on it, alive 43x longer than intended, 37 users.