An intern built an invoice matcher

“The data is mostly public anyway.”— Elena, An intern

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process has 8 steps, 4 of which are "send an email". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

browser cookies with surprising ambition

Authentication:

the demo account has production access

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 18 days

Responsible:

Jens, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a diagram on a whiteboard, photographed, then deleted

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 88 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 391 users, €86k per year, 3 departments depend on it.