Someone From Head Office built a renewal calendar

“We can always rebuild it.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Allegedly because the retention policy is "do not delete anything". Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Chen, a controller

Build time:

4 hours 25 minutes

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

a SOAP service returning XML from 8 years ago

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

running on a server nobody remembers provisioning

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 5 minutes to load

Security situation:

TLS is disabled because it is "inside the network"

Future disaster:

It will fail during the year-end close.

Age: 13 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 13 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: €1.2m per year, 323 users, 28% chance of becoming business critical.