Logistics built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Priya, Logistics

Reason:

Because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €38,000. Already exported 95,790 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Priya, a product owner

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the API key is shared with three vendors and one intern

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Lukas, because everyone else refused

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 88 days ago

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Slack message

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 4.8 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 701 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 58x longer than intended, the builder has left, 3 users.