CEO Office built a customer feedback wall

“It's read-only. Mostly.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because Sales has a newer spreadsheet. Built in 3 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Jens, an analyst

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

the security contact is whoever notices first

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Jens, an analyst. Only Jens.

Documentation:

a Word document called copy of copy of Stock_list_new_v2.xlsm

Security situation:

there is one shared admin account

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 123 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 123 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 9x longer than intended, 13 users, €4k per year.