Finance built a performance review form

“It's internal.”— Elena, Finance

Reason:

Allegedly because the printer is somehow involved. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Elena, a team lead

Build time:

4 hours 27 minutes

Built with:

a Notion database with automations

Database:

a GitHub Gist that became business critical

Authentication:

there is one account called "admin" and nobody knows who owns it

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2020

Responsible:

Petra, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

a Loom video recorded at 1.5x speed

Security situation:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 1.9 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €115k per year, 79 users, alive 50x longer than intended.