Continuous Improvement built a spreadsheet version tracker

“The password is really long.”— Jens, Continuous Improvement

Reason:

Mainly because two teams disagreed about a column name for 4 weeks. Already exported 108,628 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Jens, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 hours 46 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script holding together three departments

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 6 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Future disaster:

It will cause Procurement to ask "what vendor?".

Age: 2.7 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 141x longer than intended, 50 users, 1 departments depend on it.