Field Service built an asset register for 400 laptops

“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because Finance has a different spreadsheet. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Lukas, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

Tobias's laptop, technically

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

running on port 8081 in production

Responsible:

Petra, who has not touched it in 16 months

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

a security review was scheduled for June and quietly cancelled

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €38,000 to the wrong country.

Age: 189 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 150 users, alive 3x longer than intended, €3k per year.