Legal built a KPI dashboard explaining the other KPI dashboard

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 21 minute tutorial. With a logo generated at 09:41.

Built by:

Bastian, someone from Procurement

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

Streamlit, somehow now in production

Database:

a mini PC behind the reception desk

Authentication:

authorization is handled in the UI

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

logout only hides the menu

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 65 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 392 users, €20k per year, alive 9x longer than intended.