Marketing built a supplier scorecard

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 15 months. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Marco, the management assistant

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

the legacy system's database through a read-only user with write permissions

Authentication:

the admin password is Olivier123

Deployment:

hosted on Priya's personal Vercel account

Responsible:

whoever still has the admin password

Documentation:

comments beginning with TODO 2026

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will get rewritten, producing exactly the same system.

Age: 12 days · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 12 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, 15% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.