Marketing built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“The password is really long.”— Kevin, Marketing

Reason:

Allegedly because the printer is somehow involved. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Kevin, a recruiter

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a backup called backup-final-March.zip

Authentication:

the admin route is called /admin-new-final

Deployment:

running in Docker, but the Dockerfile is missing

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will cause Security to ask "what application?".

Age: 45 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 departments depend on it, €7k per year, 2 users.