CEO Office built an OKR tracker abandoned in week three

“The service account needs those permissions.”— Miriam, CEO Office

Reason:

Allegedly because someone built a prototype during lunch. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Miriam, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

51 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Trello cards with JSON in the descriptions

Authentication:

the service account has global admin, just in case

Deployment:

behind a domain Daniel owns privately

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Leads_v2_use-this-one.csv.

Age: 5.1 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 134x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 16% chance of becoming business critical.