Quality Assurance built a headcount planning app

“The code is self-documenting.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 8 minutes of looking. Forked from a tutorial at 17:14 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Daniel, someone from Procurement

Build time:

3 hours 28 minutes

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the current password ends in 3

Deployment:

deployed at 17:35 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

a shared mailbox nobody reads

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Bastian, who left

Security situation:

the user's role is stored in localStorage

Future disaster:

It will overwrite the official data with yesterday's export.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 192 days ago

Rated common mostly because: nobody owns it, alive 20x longer than intended, the builder has left.