Facility Services built an asset register for 400 laptops

“We'll tell Legal if anyone asks.”— Chen, Facility Services

Reason:

Mainly because the last person who understood it left 14 months ago. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Chen, a working student

Build time:

3 hours 4 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the read-only account can update records

Deployment:

behind a domain registered for €13 during a workshop

Responsible:

Katrin, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 235 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 75% chance of becoming business critical, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.