R&D built an approval chain with one approver

“We'll clean it up after the audit.”— Lukas, R&D

Reason:

Allegedly because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Thursday. Already exported 221,831 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Lukas, a key account manager

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

an SQLite file called backup(1).db

Authentication:

the production server is reachable from the guest Wi-Fi

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

an Excel tab called Instructions

Security situation:

the app is secure because the browser shows a padlock

Future disaster:

It will get its own budget line before it gets an owner.

Age: 32 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 49% chance of becoming business critical, €131k per year.