Facilities built a printer toner request form

“We'll add authentication later.”— Sofia, Facilities

Reason:

Officially because the workflow has 58 steps and nobody wants to open it. Built during an offsite instead of the thing they were asked to build.

Built by:

Sofia, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Streamlit

Database:

a SharePoint list with 16,928 items

Authentication:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Deployment:

on a VM created for a workshop in 2020

Responsible:

Marco, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Marco"

Security situation:

the encryption key is stored next to the encrypted data

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 2.8 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 6 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €114k per year, alive 73x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.