A Former Employee built a damaged goods register

“We don't store credit cards.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the workaround has its own workaround. With 497 users and 91 feature requests.

Built by:

Miriam, someone from Procurement

Build time:

5 hours 50 minutes

Built with:

a REST API generated by something nobody can regenerate

Database:

Cosmos DB because somebody had Azure credits

Authentication:

the backend trusts whatever role the frontend sends

Deployment:

running in Docker Compose on a machine named new-2

Responsible:

Daniel, because their email address is in the config

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the data protection officer does not know it exists

Future disaster:

It will become the source of truth in 13 months.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 40 users, €94 per year.