Sales built a custom approval engine

“It's only employee data.”— Sarah, Sales

Reason:

Honestly? Because the mandatory field is documented as optional. Renamed three times to avoid attention.

Built by:

Sarah, an analyst

Build time:

3 hours 37 minutes

Built with:

Laravel, maintained by one contractor

Database:

a production table with no primary key

Authentication:

the security model is a locked office door

Deployment:

running in a Kubernetes cluster created for a proof of concept

Responsible:

"the team", which is Sarah

Documentation:

a README containing 15 broken links

Security situation:

authorization happens entirely in the frontend

Future disaster:

It will hold the only copy of Suppliers_new2.xlsx.

Age: 14 days · originally expected to last 14 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 6 departments depend on it, 34% chance of becoming business critical, 1 users.