CEO Office built a CAPA tracker nobody closes

“There are only like twelve users.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Allegedly because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. With 3 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

5 evenings

Built with:

Make.com being used as infrastructure

Database:

an array.

Authentication:

the incident response plan is "call personName"

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

Nadia, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

none, but the variable names are "pretty clear"

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will export test data into production.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 13 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 27 users, €5k per year.