Administration built an expense approval portal

“The quarter ends Friday.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because the backlog contains 12,619 items and one priority. With 2 tests, all skipped.

Built by:

Bastian, a team lead

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an Electron app wrapping a website

Database:

a Google Sheet with an Apps Script nobody remembers writing

Authentication:

the threat model is "why would anyone attack us?"

Deployment:

running from an image tagged final-final

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, who has never opened it

Documentation:

a Confluence page owned by Marco, who left

Security situation:

the refresh token never expires

Future disaster:

It will be used for an audit nobody told Ravi about.

Age: 223 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 223 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 42 users, 26% chance of becoming business critical, alive 2x longer than intended.