Finance built a 'temporary' inventory system

“It's technically not production.”— Nadia, Finance

Reason:

Honestly? Because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Invoices_Q3_new.xlsx. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Nadia, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a production snapshot from November because restore testing felt risky

Authentication:

"auth is on the roadmap" — has been for 11 days

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

Bastian, until somebody notices

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2020 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 7% of records.

Age: 279 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 182 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €609k per year, 87 users, the builder has left.