The Excel Power Users built a KPI dashboard explaining the other KPI dashboard

“We'll put it on the roadmap.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €799. With 34 users and 94 feature requests.

Built by:

Marco, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

ChatGPT, copy, paste, repeat

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

CORS is set to * because the frontend was not working

Deployment:

deployed at 23:37 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 8 active members

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 216 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 216 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 206 users, 35% chance of becoming business critical, alive 7x longer than intended.