The Management Assistant built an asset register for 400 laptops

“It's just a cron job.”— Olivier, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Honestly? Because the test account belongs to Olivier from a warehouse supervisor. Started as Suppliers_backup.xlsx with a script attached.

Built by:

Olivier, a key account manager

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

an API endpoint called /getAllData

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

running on a server last patched 623 days ago

Responsible:

Petra, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

MFA was disabled after somebody lost their phone

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 762 users, 4 accidental connections, alive 46x longer than intended.