Office Management built a payment run checker

“Git is basically a backup.”— Elena, Office Management

Reason:

Mainly because somebody watched a 29 minute tutorial. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Elena, someone from Procurement

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a serverless architecture with one very stateful function

Database:

Jira custom fields, somehow

Authentication:

the login page is protected by another login page

Deployment:

deployed on Friday immediately before a public holiday

Responsible:

Thomas, who is currently interviewing elsewhere

Documentation:

a screenshot of a photographed whiteboard

Security situation:

the pentest report is still marked draft

Future disaster:

It will silently skip 2% of records.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 641 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: €3.4m per year, 487 users, 1 accidental connections.