Logistics built a replacement for a process nobody fully understands

“It's basically done.”— Kevin, Logistics

Reason:

Mainly because procurement needs three quotes for something costing €8,600. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Kevin, an analyst

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

an FTP server nobody knows the password for

Authentication:

one shared password, written on a sticky note in Building B

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

production secrets are in .env.example

Future disaster:

It will discover there are no backups.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 572 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 41% chance of becoming business critical, alive 19x longer than intended, 1 departments depend on it.