Information Security built a forecast-versus-actual dashboard

“It's more of a proof of concept.”— Elena, Information Security

Reason:

Officially because nobody had tested it on an iPad. Forked from a tutorial at 16:16 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Elena, a product owner

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Firebase, because nobody wanted to design a backend

Database:

Teams chat history

Authentication:

everyone uses the admin account

Deployment:

deployed at 23:32 because "nobody will be using it then"

Responsible:

Elena, a product owner. Only Elena.

Documentation:

a spreadsheet cell containing "ask Tobias"

Security situation:

it was reviewed once, by Elena, who built it

Future disaster:

It will cause IT to ask "what server?".

Age: 1.5 years · originally expected to last 4 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €445k per year, 101 users, alive 18x longer than intended.