The CEO's Assistant built a contract repository with no search

“Sales already promised it.”— Finance Business Partner

Reason:

Allegedly because the licence costs €8,600 per year, per seat. Already exported 104,562 rows to somebody's laptop.

Built by:

Marco, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

the password is the company name plus 2022

Deployment:

deployed from Ravi's laptop

Responsible:

Marco, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a Teams recording nobody has permission to open

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will import production data into the test environment.

Age: 1.2 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €183k per year, alive 33x longer than intended, 10 users.