The Management Assistant built yet another project tracker

“It's behind the VPN.”— Chen, The Management Assistant

Reason:

Mainly because the spreadsheet has 214,507 rows and 75 tabs. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Chen, an analyst

Build time:

8 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

Katrin's laptop, technically

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

running on port 3000 in production

Responsible:

an agency acquired by another agency

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will gain 560 users before anyone approves it.

Age: 321 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 321 days ago · original builder left 65 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, the builder has left, alive 15x longer than intended.