Quality Assurance built a risk matrix with 47 shades of yellow

“We'll add SSO later.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Allegedly because Friday at 16:10 seemed like a reasonable time to deploy. With a logo generated at 16:01.

Built by:

Sofia, a key account manager

Build time:

5 hours 57 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins and one critical shortcode

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

passwords are stored in plaintext, for troubleshooting

Deployment:

deployed to staging, which customers are now using

Responsible:

a former employee still helping occasionally

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

no security review, no plans for one

Future disaster:

It will be the only application that still works during the migration.

Age: 93 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 93 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 80% chance of becoming business critical, €250k per year, 114 users.