The Canteen built a skills matrix

“We're too small to get hacked.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last 10% is authentication, billing and everything else. Copied to production via floppy disks.

Built by:

Katrin, an analyst

Build time:

4 hours 20 minutes

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

one table with 155 columns

Authentication:

the security model is "we have antivirus"

Deployment:

kept alive by a scheduled task every 7 minutes

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

tribal knowledge, technically

Security situation:

IT was informed. IT has chosen peace.

Future disaster:

It will be presented at a conference as a success story.

Age: 66 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 66 days ago · original builder left 54 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 305 users, the builder has left, 10% chance of becoming business critical.