Finance built a KPI wall for a screen nobody looks at

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Jens, Finance

Reason:

Because someone built a prototype during lunch. With 8 users and 41 feature requests.

Built by:

Jens, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a table called temp that has existed for 4 years

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

hosted on a server shared with 11 unrelated applications

Responsible:

Finance Business Partner, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a 105 minute screen recording

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will fail exactly when Miriam is on holiday.

Age: 1.7 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 95% chance of becoming business critical, alive 29x longer than intended, 2 departments depend on it.