Contract Management built a whistleblowing case tracker

“It's not customer-facing.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because somebody watched a 23 minute tutorial. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Miriam, the management assistant

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a folder called DATABASE

Authentication:

the admin route is called /secret

Deployment:

SSL certificate expires in 13 days

Responsible:

Group Controller, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

a Word document called Customers_new_use-this-one.xlsx

Security situation:

production secrets are in a Jira ticket

Future disaster:

It will fail five minutes before a board meeting.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 468 users, €89k per year, 2 accidental connections.