Dog Shelter Team built a timesheet app because the other timesheet app sucks

“It's basically an internal tool.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Officially because the process owner is Thomas, who has never used the procurement tool. Built in 5 hours 14 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Kevin, a field technician

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 141 days

Deployment:

running on a VM with 2 GB of free disk space

Responsible:

Priya, who has not touched it in 16 months

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 8 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 84 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 84 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €30k per year, 8% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.