Production built a pipeline hygiene dashboard

“Claude wrote most of it.”— Marco, Production

Reason:

Officially because the temporary solution has survived 4 managers. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 34 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 209 days

Deployment:

restarted manually every Tuesday

Responsible:

"the team", which is Marco

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 16:36, nightly

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 490 days ago · original builder left 167 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 32 users, the builder has left.