Contract Management built an export compliance checklist

“We'll add authentication later.”— Sofia, Contract Management

Reason:

Because the dashboard disagrees with Finance by €38,000. With a logo generated at 16:28.

Built by:

Sofia, a controller

Build time:

one weekend

Built with:

Access, because the database was already there

Database:

a Map().

Authentication:

the role is stored in localStorage

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

a steering committee that has not met in 3 months

Documentation:

a PowerPoint from 2021 labelled FINAL

Security situation:

production secrets are in the frontend bundle

Future disaster:

It will still be running in 2035.

Age: 3.6 years · originally expected to last 3 weeks · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 3 days ago

Rated legendary mostly because: 99% chance of becoming business critical, alive 62x longer than intended, 1 accidental connections.