The Team Nobody Remembers Creating built a compliance checklist with checkboxes and no checks

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Elena, The Team Nobody Remembers Creating

Reason:

Because Customers_v2_new.xlsx is stored on Ravi's desktop. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Elena, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

118,310 XML files generated by SAP

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

running on Windows Server because that machine was available

Responsible:

Katrin, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2030.

Age: 23 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 23 days ago · original builder left 60 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 837 users, the builder has left, 10% chance of becoming business critical.