Legal built an expense approval workflow

“We'll tell Security once it works.”— Bastian, Legal

Reason:

Officially because the CEO tested it on an iPad. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 209 days ago.

Built by:

Bastian, a working student

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

dates stored as text in 3 different formats

Authentication:

the intern has production access

Deployment:

deployed through a GitHub Action that only Katrin understands

Responsible:

the person sitting closest to the printer

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the API key is shared by 14 applications

Future disaster:

It will get a staging environment after production breaks.

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 563 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 207 users, 47% chance of becoming business critical, alive 19x longer than intended.