Finance built a vendor onboarding portal

“Management asked for it.”— Elena, Finance

Reason:

Mainly because the optional field breaks everything if left empty. Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Elena, a working student

Build time:

19 minutes

Built with:

a Slack bot doing database writes

Database:

one table called everything

Authentication:

TLS is enabled, certificate warnings are ignored

Deployment:

deployed by copying files over RDP

Responsible:

Regional Sales Lead, who has never opened it

Documentation:

none whatsoever

Security situation:

security is handled by a checkbox called admin

Future disaster:

It will eventually need a migration project larger than the app itself.

Age: 133 days · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · last meaningful change 133 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 52 users, €67k per year, alive 6x longer than intended.