CEO Office built a purchase order status tracker

“There's already a Jira ticket.”— Miriam, CEO Office

Reason:

Honestly? Because the existing report is a PDF of a screenshot of Suppliers_old.xlsm. With a settings page that does nothing.

Built by:

Miriam, the management assistant

Build time:

2 evenings

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

Elasticsearch, because somebody wanted search

Authentication:

the password is "Password1!" because it meets the policy

Deployment:

hosted in Petra's Azure subscription

Responsible:

Finance, apparently

Documentation:

a Slack thread from August

Security situation:

the audit log was disabled because the disk filled up

Future disaster:

It will make an audit take 3 extra weeks.

Age: 63 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 63 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 100% chance of becoming business critical, 213 users, €226k per year.