Quality Assurance built Excel with a login screen

“The password changes every year.”— Bastian, Quality Assurance

Reason:

Allegedly because the travel portal needs 11 clicks and two approvals to add a supplier. With 58 users and zero documentation.

Built by:

Bastian, someone from Procurement

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

the MFA code is always 000000 in the test environment

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

two architecture diagrams that disagree

Security situation:

CORS is set to * because it fixed the issue

Future disaster:

It will email customer data to a market you do not operate in.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €3.0m per year, 392 users, 12% chance of becoming business critical.