CEO's Daughter built a third CRM

“We'll tell IT once it works.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the documentation starts with "TODO". Built in 4 hours 26 minutes and demonstrated immediately afterwards.

Built by:

Jens, an analyst

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

money stored as FLOAT

Authentication:

the session cookie expires in 10 years

Deployment:

deployed through Jenkins, which has been "temporary" for 2 years

Responsible:

Tobias, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

an architecture diagram containing a box labelled "magic happens here"

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 5 months old

Future disaster:

It will become a works council agenda item.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 838 users, 100% chance of becoming business critical, alive 59x longer than intended.