Quality Assurance built an onboarding checklist tool

“It's only for one department.”— Anja, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Allegedly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Built in 43 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Anja, a team lead

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 12 times

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 44 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 5 users, 3% chance of becoming business critical.