R&D built an expense approval workflow

“It's just a cron job.”— Sofia, R&D

Reason:

Honestly? Because someone called it "basically just CRUD". Already exported 4,397 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Sofia, a controller

Build time:

2 hours 34 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a column called do_not_use that is required

Authentication:

anonymous users are mapped to "default admin"

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called test

Responsible:

Operations, but they strongly disagree

Documentation:

a 76 minute screen recording

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will eventually process €49 per month.

Age: 161 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 30 users, alive 12x longer than intended, 7% chance of becoming business critical.