Quality Assurance built an onboarding checklist tool

“It's just a cron job.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Officially because the meeting to fix it created 3 more meetings. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Priya, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

a vector database containing invoices for reasons

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

deployed on Thursday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

Miriam's memory

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for January and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Elena about.

Age: 8.1 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 60% chance of becoming business critical, €114k per year, 3 departments depend on it.