The Team Nobody Remembers Creating built a custom survey tool for one annual survey

“Nobody would want this data.”— Sofia, The Team Nobody Remembers Creating

Reason:

Honestly? Because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €14,000. Built in a long Thursday and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sofia, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

no database, it is a spreadsheet

Authentication:

MFA is enabled for 2 people

Deployment:

on a Raspberry Pi in the server room

Responsible:

Bastian, according to Jira

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2024

Security situation:

rate limiting consists of hoping nobody notices

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 2 extra weeks.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 748 users, €281k per year, alive 21x longer than intended.