Sales built a secret Santa allocator

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Officially because the official form has 59 fields and not the one that matters. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Anja, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Bootstrap 3 and a dream

Database:

Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search

Authentication:

the production token is in a Jira ticket

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word demo

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Anja, who left

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will duplicate every record after a timezone change.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €217k per year, 4 departments depend on it, 62 users.