Quality Assurance built a lunch order aggregator

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the export takes 43 minutes and sometimes produces an empty file. Started as Customers_v2.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Katrin, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

Airtable on Thomas's personal plan

Authentication:

Daniel knows the password

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Priya, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will send 87,484 duplicate emails.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 110x longer than intended, 10 users, 1 departments depend on it.