Nobody, Officially built a corrective action dashboard

“We'll document it after the quarter.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of copy of copy of Stock_list_backup_final_FINAL.xlsx. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.

Built by:

Sarah, a working student

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Redis, permanently

Database:

an email inbox used as the database

Authentication:

the secret is in the screenshot in the README

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 17 months

Documentation:

a Loom video whose owner account has been deleted

Security situation:

the admin account is also the service account

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 326 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 119 users, alive 16x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.