CEO Office built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“It only writes when necessary.”— Katrin, CEO Office

Reason:

Mainly because the project has been 90% finished for 4 months. Built in 19 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Katrin, the management assistant

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

the guest Wi-Fi password is also the admin password

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

Nadia, who only knows the database

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 111 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 111 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, 43 users, alive 16x longer than intended.