Contract Management built a purchase order status tracker

“The customer already saw the demo.”— Priya, Contract Management

Reason:

Officially because Priya has the only working copy of Budget2026.xlsx. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 411 days ago.

Built by:

Priya, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

27 minutes

Built with:

Docker Compose on a machine called PROD2

Database:

a database view called temp_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

behind a domain that still contains the word test

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 7 months

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2022 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 3 months old

Future disaster:

It will get SSO after somebody shares the password publicly.

Age: 50 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 50 days ago · original builder left 52 days ago

Rated common mostly because: the builder has left, 2 users, €166 per year.