HR built a CRM pretending to be an ERP

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Sarah, HR

Reason:

Because it was faster to build it than to explain it to HR Generalist. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sarah, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an in-memory dictionary. Restarts are exciting.

Authentication:

the production token is in the onboarding document

Deployment:

deployed Friday at 16:06

Responsible:

Petra, until somebody notices

Documentation:

one README with 6 TODOs

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will break the day Sarah changes their password.

Age: 19 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 221 users, 1 accidental connections, deployed on a Friday.