Works Council built an internal app built because someone disliked one dropdown

“It's only one container.”— Priya, Works Council

Reason:

Because Thomas from Works Council is on holiday until August. With a logo generated at 16:06.

Built by:

Priya, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

whatever the AI picked first

Database:

a folder called DO_NOT_DELETE_OLD

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

deployed Tuesday at 17:51

Responsible:

Marketing Manager, because their name appeared first in the meeting notes

Documentation:

an architecture diagram with 5 arrows labelled API

Security situation:

it stores passwords, hashed with nothing

Future disaster:

It will process the same invoice 4 times.

Age: 21 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 21 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €159k per year, 2 users, 2% chance of becoming business critical.