Facilities built an on-call rota in a shared doc with a UI

“The password is really long.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Because the Miro board is now the documentation. With a logo generated at 08:26.

Built by:

Jens, a controller

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

an Access database called copy of copy of Budget2026.csv with 5 linked tables

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

Jens, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 5.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €104k per year, alive 148x longer than intended, 3 departments depend on it.