Operational Excellence built a reconciliation tool for three systems that definitely do not agree

“It's not really an application.”— Plant Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because Finance has a different spreadsheet. With a logo generated at 16:31.

Built by:

Thomas, a working student

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

RabbitMQ with 89 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

an API key in the frontend bundle

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Invoices_Q3_FIXED.xlsx

Responsible:

Marco, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the incident response plan starts with "call Marco"

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by another tool built by Bastian.

Age: 3.2 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago · original builder left 935 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 77% chance of becoming business critical, 3 accidental connections, 109 users.