Recruiting built a badge access request tool

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Sarah, Recruiting

Reason:

Officially because the ticket has been open for 34 days. Built in 5 evenings and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Sarah, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

an Access database called copy of copy of Suppliers_FIXED.xlsx with 6 linked tables

Authentication:

the guest Wi-Fi password is also the admin password

Deployment:

running on a VM with 2 GB of free disk space

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the penetration test found it by accident

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 70 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 48 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 43 users, the builder has left.