HR built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Sofia, HR

Reason:

Officially because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sofia, an analyst

Build time:

1 hours 9 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

Tobias knows the password

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into SAP and then quietly migrated back.

Age: 4.3 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 75% chance of becoming business critical, €78k per year, alive 52x longer than intended.