CEO Office built a campaign approval workflow

“It only has admin access because read-only didn't work.”— Tobias, CEO Office

Reason:

Allegedly because the integration has been "temporarily disabled" for 14 months. With 316 users and 54 feature requests.

Built by:

Tobias, a team lead

Build time:

2 hours 55 minutes

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins and one critical shortcode

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

permissions are checked by asking "should this person be here?"

Deployment:

running on an EC2 instance somebody resized manually

Responsible:

Marco, currently on parental leave

Documentation:

an email chain containing the phrase "see below" 10 times

Security situation:

certificate warnings are considered normal

Future disaster:

It will acquire a workaround for the workaround.

Age: 88 days · originally expected to last 3 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 19 days ago · original builder left 78 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €836k per year, 177 users, the builder has left.