The New Guy built a lessons learned database nobody learns from

“Everyone has admin because roles were slowing us down.”— Priya, The New Guy

Reason:

Officially because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Monday. With 2 users, one of whom is the CEO.

Built by:

Priya, a controller

Build time:

8 evenings

Built with:

a no-code builder on a personal account

Database:

an Oracle database nobody can explain the licensing for

Authentication:

the username and password are printed on the login page

Deployment:

deployed by emailing Suppliers_new.xlsx to Priya

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the penetration test account had global admin

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 3 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 111x longer than intended, 47 users, 1 departments depend on it.