Fleet Management built a non-conformance register

“It's only for a few people.”— IT Service Desk

Reason:

Mainly because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Friday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Kevin, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

4 hours 22 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a second Postgres called main-old, for safety

Authentication:

the JWT secret is "changeme"

Deployment:

on a free tier that expires in 28 days

Responsible:

a consultancy that changed its name twice

Documentation:

a photographed whiteboard from a workshop

Security situation:

production secrets are in the README

Future disaster:

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

Age: 333 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 684 users, 98% chance of becoming business critical, 2 departments depend on it.