Procurement built a lunch order aggregator

“It's more of a tool.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Marco, someone from Procurement

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a network drive mapped as Z: on three people's computers

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

restarted manually every Friday

Responsible:

nobody. It has no owner.

Documentation:

a PowerPoint with 21 slides

Security situation:

it has an admin panel, unlinked, unprotected

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 58 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 34 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, 29 users, the builder has left.