Internal Audit built a 'temporary' inventory system

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Regional Sales Lead

Reason:

Officially because the dashboard is updated manually every Friday. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Anja, a recruiter

Build time:

7 evenings

Built with:

plain HTML and 1,900 lines of jQuery

Database:

a Docker volume called new and a prayer

Authentication:

the security model is "Google probably handles that"

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

a Teams channel with 4 active members

Documentation:

a Miro board with 198 sticky notes

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will outlive the vendor that was supposed to replace it.

Age: 66 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 66 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 1 departments depend on it, €6k per year, 1 users.