Someone From Accounting built a project prioritisation matrix

“We'll add authentication later.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Honestly? Because the last person who understood it left 13 months ago. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Ravi, the management assistant

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

Airtable plus four Zapier zaps

Database:

an audit table that nobody has ever queried

Authentication:

production is technically the test environment

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, who delegated it to somebody who left

Documentation:

a calendar invite description from September

Security situation:

every error response includes the full stack trace

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 1.6 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 187 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 4 accidental connections, €219k per year, 54% chance of becoming business critical.