Recruiting built a birthday cake reimbursement workflow

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Officially because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Daniel, a product owner

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

a nightly CSV export emailed to Marco

Authentication:

the audit log is a text file called audit-final.txt

Deployment:

hosted on a cloud account costing €84.83/month

Responsible:

Lukas, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

comments in the code, in a second language

Security situation:

the admin URL contains the word secret

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 6.9 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €277k per year, alive 83x longer than intended, 24 users.