Digital Transformation built an access review tool

“Nobody would want this data.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the CEO tested it on an iPad. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Thomas, a product owner

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

a column called misc

Authentication:

the certificate expired 209 days ago

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

"digital transformation"

Documentation:

a README that begins with "temporary notes"

Security situation:

IT has not been informed and will not be

Future disaster:

It will discover the backup password left with Ravi.

Age: 7.6 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 335 users, 3 accidental connections, alive 396x longer than intended.