Facilities built a 'temporary' inventory system

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Petra, Facilities

Reason:

Mainly because Finance has a different spreadsheet. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Petra, a recruiter

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

an Oracle database nobody can explain the licensing for

Authentication:

the logout button refreshes the page

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2021

Responsible:

a team that has since been reorganised

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Sarah, who left

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 395 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €87k per year, 3 departments depend on it, alive 30x longer than intended.