Compliance built a year-end close checklist created during year-end close

“We can rebuild it properly later.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the budget expires on Friday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Elena, a controller

Build time:

6 evenings

Built with:

Replit, because deployment looked like one button

Database:

passwords stored in a column called password

Authentication:

MFA is disabled because somebody lost their phone

Deployment:

sharing a reverse proxy with the company Christmas raffle

Responsible:

Priya, who inherited it during a reorganisation

Documentation:

an email with the subject "quick overview"

Security situation:

the audit log is console.log

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 7 months.

Age: 292 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 54 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, alive 21x longer than intended, the builder has left.