The SharePoint Team built a wrapper around another internal tool

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Kevin, The SharePoint Team

Reason:

Allegedly because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. Already exported 60,669 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Kevin, a team lead

Build time:

1 hours 15 minutes

Built with:

a browser extension that somehow became business critical

Database:

an Oracle database that costs more than the application

Authentication:

logging out just hides the menu

Deployment:

using a self-signed certificate everybody has accepted

Responsible:

a project group that technically no longer exists

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the audit log records "updated successfully"

Future disaster:

It will create a GDPR incident somebody describes as "probably minor".

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €528k per year, 2 users, alive 2x longer than intended.