Dog Shelter Team built a headcount planning app

“The office Wi-Fi is secure.”— Katrin, Dog Shelter Team

Reason:

Allegedly because the temporary solution has survived 3 managers. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Katrin, a key account manager

Build time:

2 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

Airtable on Elena's personal plan

Authentication:

the role is a query parameter

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

IT, according to Finance

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will cause Head of Operations to request an immediate status meeting.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, alive 145x longer than intended, 4 users.