Logistics built an incident log nobody logs incidents in

“We'll add tests later.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Officially because the documentation was last updated 8 months ago. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 88 days ago.

Built by:

Marco, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

an Access database called copy of copy of Customers_final_final.xlsm with 17 linked tables

Authentication:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Deployment:

deployed straight to production on a Friday, no staging

Responsible:

"the team", which is Marco

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

the temporary firewall rule is 2 months old

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT works.

Age: 62 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 62 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 680 users, 4 accidental connections, 23% chance of becoming business critical.