Operational Excellence built a packaging material inventory

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Olivier, Operational Excellence

Reason:

Mainly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Renamed twice to avoid attention.

Built by:

Olivier, a field technician

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

Zapier being used as middleware

Database:

Firebase with open read rules since August

Authentication:

the production token is in the onboarding document

Deployment:

deployed 13 minutes before the builder went on holiday

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

It will be used for payroll by accident.

Age: 4.6 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 5 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 370 users, €578k per year, 5 accidental connections.