Dog Shelter Team built an expense approval workflow

“It's on a weird port.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Honestly? Because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Already exported 206,224 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Priya, someone from Procurement

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

Svelte, which nobody else here writes

Database:

a SQLite file on a network share

Authentication:

the password policy requires one uppercase letter and optimism

Deployment:

on the marketing website's server, somehow

Responsible:

"the team", which is Priya

Documentation:

a folder called Documentation containing another folder called Old

Security situation:

the admin page is protected by not linking to it

Future disaster:

It will be migrated into the official system in 2034.

Age: 2.6 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 3 owners so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, alive 31x longer than intended, 11 users.