An intern built an offboarding tool that forgets the offboarding

“It's behind the VPN.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Mainly because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 12 minutes of looking. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Sofia, a product owner

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

an API that returns CSV

Authentication:

Elena thinks Daniel knows the password

Deployment:

deployed manually because CI/CD "was taking too long"

Responsible:

IT Service Desk, who calls it "the little tool"

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

it is indexed by Google. All of it.

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 83 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 49% chance of becoming business critical, €77k per year, 21 users.