Marketing built a case study approval tracker

“It's basically a spreadsheet with buttons.”— Marco, Marketing

Reason:

Mainly because the meeting to fix it created 4 more meetings. With 715 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Marco, a controller

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

a database on Lukas's laptop

Authentication:

the password policy requires changing it every 30 days, so everyone adds 1

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Stock_list_new.csv to Olivier

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the vulnerability scanner is blocked by the firewall

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Petra leaves the company.

Age: 8.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €576k per year, 153 users, alive 100x longer than intended.