CEO's Daughter built a lead assignment app

“It's basically done.”— Marco, CEO's Daughter

Reason:

Because Finance has a different spreadsheet. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a controller

Build time:

9 evenings

Built with:

Postgres, but accessed directly from the frontend

Database:

a NAS called test purchased from Amazon

Authentication:

the audit log contains passwords

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

passwords are "encrypted" with Base64

Future disaster:

It will become impossible to shut down because 4 other tools depend on it.

Age: 6.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 39x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 accidental connections.