CEO Office built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“It's not really an application.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Officially because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "magic". Started as Headcount.xlsm with a script attached.

Built by:

Petra, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Python and a cron job on a laptop

Database:

RabbitMQ with 395 unacknowledged messages

Authentication:

the password manager is memory

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Suppliers_v2_final_FINAL.xlsx to Lukas

Responsible:

Chen, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Tobias"

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will delete records older than 116 days, including the important ones.

Age: 8.5 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 444x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 users.