The Front Desk built a monitor allocation database

“Nobody knows the URL.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Because the architecture diagram contains a box labelled "manual step". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Katrin, a recruiter

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

WordPress with eleven plugins

Database:

Firestore because the prototype needed to ship by Friday

Authentication:

a login screen that accepts any password

Deployment:

running from a zip file called Leads_use-this-one.xlsm

Responsible:

Katrin, who only knows the frontend

Documentation:

a README last updated 34 days ago

Security situation:

security is handled by being "internal only"

Future disaster:

It will be discovered during due diligence.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 4 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: €221k per year, alive 61x longer than intended, 30 users.