IT (yes, really) built a meeting room booking system

“It's just an Excel replacement.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Mainly because nobody had tested it on an iPad. With 58 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Chen, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed behind a Cloudflare Tunnel from Sofia's laptop

Responsible:

Olivier, who thought somebody else owned it

Documentation:

a README describing a version that no longer exists

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will break the day Chen changes their password.

Age: 8.1 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €272k per year, alive 98x longer than intended, 3 departments depend on it.