Marketing built an overtime calculator

“It's not really an application.”— Jens, Marketing

Reason:

Mainly because the roadmap says Q4, but nobody wrote down the year. Built in 4 hours 10 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Jens, an analyst

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Customers_FIXED.csv to Ravi

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 18 months old

Future disaster:

It will round money differently from Finance.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €247k per year, 3 departments depend on it, alive 8x longer than intended.