Operations built a supplier scorecard

“It's just a webhook.”— Ravi, Operations

Reason:

Mainly because someone built a prototype during lunch. Built in 8 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Ravi, a team lead

Build time:

3 evenings

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

restarted manually every Thursday

Responsible:

Marco, who inherited it from Ravi by accident

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 09:31, nightly

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 3.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 1037 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 294 users, alive 63x longer than intended, the builder has left.