Facility Services built a supplier scorecard

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Ravi, Facility Services

Reason:

Mainly because the backlog contains 172,335 items and one priority. Started as Headcount_FIXED.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Ravi, someone from Procurement

Build time:

43 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

RabbitMQ with 534 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

backups use the same password as production

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 3.5 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 60x longer than intended, 1 users, €20 per year.