Finance built yet another project tracker

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Jens, Finance

Reason:

Officially because the document management system is only reachable on the VPN, which drops every 27 minutes. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 141 days ago.

Built by:

Jens, a team lead

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a MongoDB with no password on port 27018

Authentication:

SSO, but only for Olivier

Deployment:

deployed 28 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

"the team", which is Jens

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 209 days ago

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will break the day Jens changes their password.

Age: 5.0 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 471 users, €508k per year, 63% chance of becoming business critical.