Legal built an NDA generator

“It's just a form.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Because the approval requires 3 people for a €14,000 purchase. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Ravi, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a Postgres database called prod-new

Authentication:

every employee is an admin because support tickets were taking too long

Deployment:

automatically restarted by a cron job because nobody fixed the memory leak

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will fill the disk at 14:34.

Age: 173 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 173 days ago · original builder left 82 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 40 users, 2 departments depend on it, the builder has left.