Operations built a replacement for exactly one feature of SAP

“It's only temporary.”— Managing Director

Reason:

Because the budget appeared unexpectedly on Tuesday. Forked from a tutorial at 17:46 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Jens, an analyst

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

Vue, for personal reasons

Database:

a column called misc2 because misc was already taken

Authentication:

the session never expires because that was annoying

Deployment:

hosted in Thomas's Azure subscription

Responsible:

whoever happens to be on call

Documentation:

a Loom video nobody can find

Security situation:

the audit log also contains passwords

Future disaster:

It will be presented to management as evidence that shadow IT must stop.

Age: 288 days · originally expected to last 7 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 3 departments depend on it, alive 41x longer than intended, 6% chance of becoming business critical.