Data & Analytics built a contractor register

“It's not shadow IT if the manager knows about it.”— Head of Operations

Reason:

Mainly because someone built a prototype during lunch. Forked from a tutorial at 17:23 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Miriam, an intern

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

an AI agent with production credentials

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

Basic Auth over plain HTTP

Deployment:

deployed from a branch called new

Responsible:

Daniel, who only knows the database

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the firewall rule is labelled TEMP

Future disaster:

It will get a Jira project before it gets documentation.

Age: 2.1 years · originally expected to last 3 months · 4 owners so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 74 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 5 accidental connections, it is load bearing, alive 9x longer than intended.