Marketing built an onboarding checklist tool

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because nobody could find the right SharePoint folder in 43 minutes of looking. Quietly rolled out to three countries.

Built by:

Nadia, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

a Postgres replica that accidentally became primary

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2022

Deployment:

in a Docker container nobody can rebuild

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a Confluence page linking to another Confluence page

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €799 per month.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 14 days ago · original builder left 44 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 259 users, 2 accidental connections, €41k per year.