Expense Management built a resource allocation tool

“It's only employee data.”— Thomas, Expense Management

Reason:

Honestly? Because the process requires signatures from 4 people. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Thomas, a key account manager

Build time:

a long Thursday

Built with:

an Electron app, for a form

Database:

GitHub Issues. Yes, production data.

Authentication:

the password was last changed 823 days ago

Deployment:

hosted in Priya's Azure subscription

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Miro board that takes 2 minutes to load

Security situation:

the cookie banner is the security feature

Future disaster:

It will be replaced by an Excel file during the migration.

Age: 2.3 years · originally expected to last 7 days · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 420 days ago · original builder left 329 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 6 accidental connections, 173 users, €166k per year.