Finance built a vendor onboarding portal

“Everyone using it is trustworthy.”— Katrin, Finance

Reason:

Because nobody had tested it on an iPad. With a logo generated at 16:45.

Built by:

Katrin, a product owner

Build time:

4 evenings

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

accessible through an IP address because DNS is "later"

Responsible:

Priya, who has not touched it in 12 months

Documentation:

a file called README-NEW-FINAL.md

Security situation:

it emails a CSV of everything at 11:03, nightly

Future disaster:

It will trigger a call from the works council.

Age: 220 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 16x longer than intended, €12k per year, 5 users.