HR built a mobile phone register

“There's already a Confluence page.”— Nadia, HR

Reason:

Because the licence costs €249 plus a support contract. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Nadia, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps and one mystery webhook

Database:

an S3 bucket called new with public access "temporarily" enabled

Authentication:

the current password ends in 10

Deployment:

deployed from Jens's laptop

Responsible:

Nadia, who left 8 months ago

Documentation:

a Slack thread from March

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 09:00, nightly

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 1.3 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago · original builder left 220 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €285k per year, 32% chance of becoming business critical, the builder has left.