Finance built a deployment button

“It's just a webhook.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because the documentation starts with "TODO". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Jens, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Elasticsearch, now also storing the invoices

Authentication:

a URL 69 characters long, which counts as security

Deployment:

running on localhost through a tunnel

Responsible:

Elena, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

one README with 5 TODOs

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will be described as "legacy" before its first birthday.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 84x longer than intended, direct production access, 1 accidental connections.