Master Data Management built a risk register

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Honestly? Because IT said no, politely, in writing, on a Friday. Quietly rolled out to five countries.

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

4 hours 31 minutes

Built with:

Python, Flask and no requirements.txt

Database:

Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

behind a CDN for an app only used inside one building

Responsible:

Anja, whose laptop contains the only working environment

Documentation:

a Miro board with 139 sticky notes

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will turn out to be the only system that knows the real numbers.

Age: 143 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 20x longer than intended, €13k per year, 1 users.