The Management Assistant built an onboarding checklist tool

“Git is basically a backup.”— Nadia, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Allegedly because the shared password was last changed 623 days ago. With 82 users and 57 feature requests.

Built by:

Nadia, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

the firewall rule says "temporary"

Deployment:

last successfully deployed 209 days ago

Responsible:

Bastian, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 80% chance of becoming business critical, 1 accidental connections, 1 departments depend on it.