Quality Assurance built a cheap copy of a SaaS app

“It's not really an application.”— Anja, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Officially because the workflow has 116 steps and nobody wants to open it. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Anja, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

an old laptop in the server room

Authentication:

the password is the company name backwards

Deployment:

running on a development server labelled DO NOT RESTART

Responsible:

Finance, according to IT

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 623 days ago

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will send an invoice of €49 to the wrong country.

Age: 243 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €130k per year, 71 users, 2 departments depend on it.