Finance built an internal wiki with 11 pages

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Ravi, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because Katrin from Finance is on holiday until August. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Ravi, a team lead

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Google Apps Script

Database:

a production table with no primary key

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Sunday, no staging

Responsible:

Chen, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Ravi, who built it

Future disaster:

It will get an SLA before it gets a test suite.

Age: 65 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 65 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €89k per year, 22 users, alive 9x longer than intended.