Information Security built a desk plant watering rota

“The admin page isn't linked anywhere.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Mainly because the deletion process requires a ticket, a manager and 9 approvals. With a roadmap in the README, last touched 823 days ago.

Built by:

Petra, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a Chrome extension installed manually on 47 laptops

Database:

a database view called test-backup_FINAL_FINAL

Authentication:

permissions are managed by copying another user's account

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

Managing Director, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a Confluence page marked "draft", last edited 623 days ago

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will cause Legal to ask "who approved this?".

Age: 84 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago · original builder left 36 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 accidental connections, €148k per year, 3 departments depend on it.