Marketing built a vendor contract tracker

“We only need it until the new ERP goes live.”— HR Generalist

Reason:

Because it was faster to build it than to explain it to IT Service Desk. Quietly rolled out to two countries.

Built by:

Bastian, an intern

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Excel macros, exposed over HTTP

Database:

a production table with no primary key

Authentication:

MFA is optional, so naturally nobody uses it

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Anja, because their credit card pays for it

Documentation:

three different architecture diagrams

Security situation:

all users technically have admin permissions

Future disaster:

It will get monitoring after the first outage.

Age: 188 days · originally expected to last 2 months · 2 owners so far · last meaningful change 188 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 94% chance of becoming business critical, 222 users, 4 accidental connections.