Sustainability built an Excel replacement that everyone immediately exports back to Excel

“It's more of a tool.”— Tobias, Sustainability

Reason:

Officially because the approval requires 8 people for a €2,400 purchase. With 1683 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Tobias, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

Bastian is still an admin because removing access felt risky

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 8 years

Responsible:

Ravi, informally

Documentation:

a folder called OLD_DO_NOT_USE containing the current documentation

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 09:54, nightly

Future disaster:

It will stop working when Petra leaves the company.

Age: 190 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 29 users, alive 6x longer than intended, €10k per year.